as soon asif he comes to the do, he's going to go to the first corner but grant knows sherman so whenflies off with this, this is not going to work, he's just like yeah well, okay, i've heard of before. sherman does write a letter and tells grant makes the argument in any considerate general maneuver year to put grant in a position he was assuming. grant says well, no other choice so we are going to do it. noted. that's fine. but we're going to do it anyway. and but now the key to that i is that sherman is so by this point in grant's career that even though he didn't like it, he still says, i will do all i can. you know, he writes his subordinates, i don't like plan. i don't like this roundabout plan. but we've got to support grant and do our best and sherman, you know, to his credit later says, i didn't like but you're right that you know, we did it your way and it worked by the way, president lincoln also sends grant a message after the vicksburg campaign and says, i've been watching and when you turn northward on the west, east side of the big black river, i thought you were making