, how is corinth going to play it. your book shows that what really matters here is not just how china and the united states relate to one another, but how others will respond to that. and i think it's already clear that key american allies are nervous as can be specifically on the issue of how the united states is going to handle north korea. the south koreans, for example, are far from comfortable with the direction that it's going. >> i would predict that the american/south korean relationship will become very stressed over the months ahead. because, i mean, the reality of the situation -- and you almost wouldn't like to say this out loud, but lindsey graham went on television, made this speech about it. so it's not like -- and strategically, you can look and see the situation. the proposition is that in order to prevent north korea from being able to do to san francisco what north korea has already been allowed to be able to do to seoul or to tokyo, we are prepared to take a course of action that's likely to cause

he -- his -- his corinth campaign comes down the fact that he's going to make sure there's going to be no surprise, he's going to make sure that everything he does is according to the book. and yet the interesting thing is by the end of the war, maybe it's sherman, maybe it's grant, maybe it's lincoln have taught halleck that war has changed. you've got to change. you've got to take a different approach and so you have halleck saying things at the end of the war that he would never say at the beginning of the war, but he's -- no, there's not any relationship. yes, sir. >> good morning, sir. i just have to compliment you on how much appreciate your talk this morning. it's nice to see somebody peel back the onion, look at a person's entire life, successes, failures, contributing factors. too many of us are quick to be critical of people without knowing the facts and again as time goes back trying to find all the facts that contributed to a person's life, their successes and failures so i wanted to compliment you on that. appreciate it. >> i've often thought about that. you've heard of th

well, all of this stemmed from an incident when the confederate army of the mississippi evacuated corinth in early june 1862 and retreated to tupelo. the commander then beauregard issued an order for nobody to fire a shot. we want this to be a quiet retreat. well, during the middle of the retreat, a man arrested a soldier from lumston bam baalab battery and brought him to bragg who was resting under a tree and told him i witnessed this guy shooting at a pig because he was hungry. the man said, i'm sorry, i didn't understand this, my unit had just joined the army of the mississippi about three or four weeks ago. i didn't know about the order. however, bragg wanted to make an example of him. he told the guard take him out into the woods and shoot him. we know this. because of a diary kept bien would of bragg's staff officers giles buckner cook which has never been published. i don't know it's ever been used at the virginia historical society. cook heard all this and he recorded in detail what happened. he said he was stunned when he heard bragg give that order. he went to bragg and interced