I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

He soon emerged as a shrewd tactician and battlefield commander winning numerous battles against far superior Union armies. Union General Ulysses S. Grant's campaigns bore down on the Confederacy in 1864 and 1865 and despite inflicting heavy casualties Lee was unable to turn the war's tide.