A E notes When Robert E. Lee surrended the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis was upset about it. He said, how dare that man resent an order Then somebody told him that General Lee had made the decision himself In order to save lives because he felt that the battle comin' up Would cost about 20,000 lives on both sides. And he said 240,000 dead already is enough. So this song is not about the North or the South, but about the bloody brother war. Brother against brother father against son, the war t (allcountrytabs.com)
