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[B]Confederate States of America[/B][/CENTER]

[B]A Response to William Tecumseh Sherman[/B]

I suppose you are right. War is indeed horrible, but if it weren't we might come to love it too much. I will surrender this city if you are to spare the people, but I ask two stipulations. You allow my soldiers to stay the winter before I surrender it to you and you allow myself and my army to leave the city in peace. It is late in the year and I fear a cold winter. Allow these people in Atlanta to live with soldiers that are their own sons and brothers through Christmas, and allow my soldiers the refuge of the the city for the winter and the city shall be yours next year. Without bloodshed.
If you do not accept these terms and instead choose to attack this city while I still dwell in it, then we shall defend it and the people with God at our back, I assure you of that. But I thank you for your offer of mercy on these citizens of Atlanta.

[B]- Robert E. Lee, General in the Army of the Confederate States of America [/B] [I](on November 7th, 1863)[/I]