i think gordon's story abou providing suss stance and water for barlow is probably false. and i do -- i don't have any reluctance to debunks that one. the spring fraternization story is probably also false. there i think that is a story -- are you all familiar with that story? that on the night of july 2 and 3 soldiers of both sides came together to fill their canteens at spanning letter -- spangler's spring and they talked over the battle, put aside their guns and frat yearnized? it's a very romantic story. but there's no contemporary evidence that indicates it's true. and there's plenty of contemporary to the battle itself that indicates that it didn't happen. it's a story that built up in the 1880's and afterwards during the period of reconciliation between the veterans and the blue and gray who wanted to look back on that experience as not a bitter conflict over principal andology -- and idealology and territory, but as some sort of romantic experience of their youth that they can now look back on. it's a story really about the period of reconciliation in the 1880's ra