halleck is saying do it by the book. you have got a secure line of everybody has the two major napoleonic theories, it's been translated into english and these guys are studying that at west point. that is supply lines, maneuver, pure halleck, sherman. grant doesn't know anything about it, but as i like to say, you know barbara mandrel, she was country when country wasn't cool. right? grant is going to go after the enemy, fight the battles. who cares about the supply lines? we are going to move forward, fight the enemy and get there. the evidence of that we'll see as we move forward. he is on pretty thin ice in terms of newspaper editors talking about how drunk he is all the time. politicians, even lincoln, they're calling on lincoln to get rid of grant. we know his statement, of course, i can't spare this man. he fights. still, they're calling for his removal. lincoln says, i think i'll try him just a little while longer, but the rope is getting pretty short. the leash is getting pretty short for grant. he has got to do

the biographer of halleck, he takes a different view and says halleck and grant were so completely opposite and they just completely talked past each other. when they talked, -- you ever had someone like that where you talk to them and is not registering? that was something similar here. halleck wanted things done by the book. grant was not a book kind of guy. a classic example, when grant had got into this great debacle and halleck says, i got to get out of it, i've got to take care of this. he immediately lights into grant, your army is not prepared. if they attacked, you're going to be in trouble. get things in order. get doing it by regulation. there is a letter that he sends to grant that says, when we get letters at from your officers, they are not addressed properly, going up the chain of command properly, they are not even folded properly. how are you going to win a war if you are not folding your letters properly? do things by the book. grant of course, who cares how letters are folded. that is the back-and-forth. a lot of that has calmed down since halite has moved to washington.

halleck says, you need to find out. on september 13, the federal cavalry corps launches a full strength drive into culpepper county. you get the very dramatic battle of culpepper courthouse. the federals reach the rapidan on september 14. longstreet is gone. where he has gone, nobody is saying. but he is not here. meade has to decide what to do. he asks washington, do you want me to advance to the rapidan? they say it is up to you. he finally enters the culpepper v, which makes them very nervous. he now confronts the rebel army behind the rapidan. this will be his problem for the rest of the year. how do i get at the rebels at the other side of the river? every ford is heavily defended. the ground on the others of the river is higher than the ground on my side. i either have to go east or west. the union army has operated to the east before during chancellorsville campaign. it has never operated toward the west. despite being at war in virginia for two years, there are still huge swaths of the old dominion that the fede

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one of the things i found in researching this is that halleck writes a letter to rosecrans and meade in september, and he says, the reason the rebels are concentrating against rosecrans is because they know that if meade and rosecrans can hold their ground in virginia and tennessee, while banks and grant clean out the trans-mississippi, the rebel cause is doomed. it sounds like in halleck's mind, grant's new job was in the trans-mississippi, and if not, an advance on mobile. nobody is talking about making grant general in chief until after chattanooga. and after that victory there, suddenly, let's make grant general in chief. and so, chattanooga elevates grant to supreme command, puts him looking over meade's shoulder and gives you the overlane campaign. it gets rosecrans fired, thomas put in his place, sherman in charge of all of the armies heading toward atlanta. if there is no confederate victory at chickamauga, which there would not have been in longstreet had not gone west, there's no siege for grant to redeem. and that means that in 1864, william rosecrans takes on the drive to

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