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WAR IS SO TERRIBLE
by Mort Kunstler
Overall Print Size: 23½" x 32¾"
Edition Size: 950
"It is well that war is so terrible, - we should grow too fond of it." These were the words spoken by General Robert E. Lee to his "Old War Horse" James Longstreet after the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. They sum up the character of the man in one sentence. In spite of the great victory he had just gained, he never lost sight of the horrors of war.
Lee met Longstreet on the morning of December 13 amid the melting snow of late autumn storms. There was fog everywhere and the city of Fredericksburg was obscured from view. Later in the day, as the fog lifted, the Union forces forded the Rappahannock River and commanding General Burnside sent wave after wave of Federal troops in a brave but fatal attack on the strongly entrenched Confederate positions on Marye's Heights.
". . .WAR IS SO TERRIBLE" depicts James Longstreet with his commanding general looking over the battlefield from Lee's Hill.
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