did grant know pemberton? if he did, how much would that have factored into his decision to put a confederate army between him, the supply base and take that risk, right? yes. grant does no. pemberton they served in the mexican war together. same division actually. and in fact that is a kind of a training ground for a lot of these these officers. in fact, there's a new book that's coming out, and i don't think i'm, you know, say anything i shouldn't i won't tell names, publishers or anything. but actually, cecily and i have written an article about it. megan grant in her own right, of course, but it deals with the lessons learned in mexico when they knew each other and learned each other, and in how they put that to to use in the civil war and grant most famously of course when he's when he's approaching fort donelson and there's no opposition whatsoever after fort donaldson falls, buckner tells him, grant, if i was in in command, which he was at floyd and pearl in pillow or in command, he said, if i had been