hallek's first order was to push price out of missouri and keep him out hallek ordered samuel curtis of iowa to advance into southwest missouri, find price, bring him to battle, and destroy him. if price refused to stand and fight, curtis, and i quote here, curtis was to drive him into the wilderness. by wilderness, hallek meant arkansas. curtis was an 1831 west point graduate who resigned from the army after only a couple years of service. he prospered as an attorney, a civil engineer, a businessman, and a politician. a man of many interests, he help found the republican party, and he was at one time, founder and president of the union pacific railroad corporation. he also was an avid gardner and tended to halt in the middle of campaigns to wander through fields looking for wild flowers. when the civil war erupted, kurtis resigned his seat in the u.s. house of representativehouse o . he was iowa's very first congressman. and he offered his services to the u.s. war department. the aging general in chief of the u.s. army, winfield scott, remembered curtis from the mexican war. and he

hallek never thought much of grant. and sometimes historians says that's because he was jealous of grant, all the wonderful things he was doing. but in actual fact he couldn't stand grant as a commander because he thought he was a sloppy commander. he didn't fill out the paperwork right. he didn't fight according to the books. so in this particular case as you know what happens he, grant is supposed to be there at shiloh waiting for buhl's army to come. when they merge, when they mass, halleck is going to come from st. louis. he's going to take command of the army. and they're going to grandly march on corinth. and he does tell grant, look, i don't want you starting any fights, as the film -- as the film points out. but grant is not afraid of anybody, truth be told. but there is this difference of attitude or opinion about how war ought to be fought. halleck is old school. grant is the new military, the new army. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> i have a question -- >> one question. >> please. well, we did want -- be

hallek is old school and grant is in the you military, the new army. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> i have a question. >> one second. >> yeah. please. before we -- >> what i did to present and anybody is welcome to come up and take a look at it. speaking of grant. this is my, shall we say, ugly duckling here letter of -- written by grant. it's a personal letter that he wrote on february 13th, 1862, in the middle of the fort donaldson fighting. he wrote it to a commander walk, who was the commander of the carondelet gun boat and he's telling him there's four more gun boats coming, so as not to get involved in any more fighting until they get there. why was this an ugly duckling? this was a letter overwritten by walk who kept it in his papers in 1894 before he sent copes to the -- to the navy for the naval o.r.s, he overwrote the pencil letter of grant in ink. so, if you look at it, you think that it doesn't quite look right, but what it is, is walk, and he makes a statement down here at the bottom that he did it, he overwrote the grant letter. so here's an original grant letter fr