i talked to other writers about him including bud robertson. i did my tour in galina. from the very beginning, ulysses grant was what the sociologist david reeseman calls a profoundly inner-directed person, calm, quiet, always keeping his own counsel, bruised some what by other boys in the neighborhood who invariably called him useless. he was what we would call average student. what we should call an average student. those of you who are military history readers know the cliche in all books about american generals. it occurs about halfway through chapter 2 of every biography, an opening homeric phrase. although a mediocre student at west point, comma -- more than ten years ago i was working here during the time of what we called the court case. and we were preparing ourselves for the admission of women into the corps. and we sought counsel from just about everyone, except from the federal academies with whom we were forbidden to talk because of the strictures of the case. united states versus virginia. my wife and i found ourselves partly as a consequence, at the fren

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in '64, to protect the flank of grant as he started on the campaign that bud robertson so clearly enunciated in the last hour. we also realize in both cases, '62 and '64, there was an opportunity to study and comment on independent command. and the campaigns that resulted in so many reputations being made and so many lost. and great examples occurred in '62 and '64. today, we have two people that have written about those campaigns, distinguished scholars. i told them both i would let you read their lengthy publication list in the conference program, but i would like to say peter cows ins has written a book on stonewall jackson. i reminded him there are several stores in town that have that for people to look at. shenandoah, '62, stonewall jackson's shenandoah valley campaign. jeffrey work has a book upstairs on the glorious army, captures the story of how lee came into command and what he did in one year's time. perfectly phenomenal. he also is a great student of what happened in winchester and cedar creek, fishers hill and so forth. so they're going to talk about some of those things. but i

i told my friend, bud robertson, that i had never forgotten and none of you will ever forget the story of the union soldiers the night before cold harbor. i can imagine no more poignant testimonial than what we ask of 18-year-old and 19-year-old people when we send them to war. grant was an imperturable man. he trained, and to absorb and respect whatever his experience. he was a product of his own conscious manufacturer and lifelong surveillance. this is a very victorian virtue. we don't hatch it much in the united states anymore. young people, adolescence, and the case of grant, let's say, 13, 14, 15 years old, you may know people like this who decide what they want to be when they grow older. i don't mean what profession or what possessions or what prestige or what celebrity, but what they want to be like. very victorian virtue. and like general lee grant embodied that. and he enspirited, he infused that spirit throughout his army. demonstrating that character in mind need not be considered as distinct qualities. i have heard many lectures and so have you about character and mind as