general sir christopher wallace who is the chairman of the board of the king's royal rifle corps museum in new england who was unbelievably generous and sort of talked me through some of these accounts of battles. the british of course, not to make any generalizations, our grade about courting everything in their history so the details of the battles were there, but they were by the company commander, the colonel who wanted to make it seem like they were a bunch of hardy guys who went out and had a good day in the battlefield which clearly was not what it was like. i had to sort of put that through the filter of other histories and try to bring them all together, and i did also find several excellent memoirs that describe -- i mean there was one man in the same, whose company was right next to my uncles in the battle of À la main who describes exactly what he saw, felt than heard and i made the assumption that was pretty much what my uncle saw felt and heard. so to get a first-person account helped a lot. but it did take a little time. anyone else? >> he what was it like for you emotion

and, um, i also had a wonderful adviser in a man named christopher wallace, general sir christopher wallace who's the chairman of the board at the royal, king's royal rifle corps museum in england who was unbelievably generous in sort of talking me through some of these account of the battles. the british, of course -- not to make any generalizations -- are great about recording everything in their history. so the details of the battles were there, but they were as seen by the company commander, the colonel, who'd been on the ground who liked to tell a good story and sort of wanted to make it seem like they were all a bunch of heal hale and hearty guys who had a good day of fun in the battlefield which is clearly not what it was like. so i had to sort of put that through the filters of other histories and bring them all, try to bring them all together. and i did also find several excellent memoirs that describe, i mean, there was one man in the same, um, whose company was right next to my uncle's at the battle who described exactly what he saw and felt and heard, and i made the assumption t

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