dr. lattimer, re-enacted ethan allen's sword. that is the story of dr. lattimer and ethan allen's sword. i wish i had gotten to know him. i did not. i became interested in the civil war as a very young man. when i wore a lot younger man's clothing the i always write about the civil war throughout the years. th these are examples, of famous books, allen nevin'strilogy, and this is my copy, it says 1962 inside. i was a lot younger. and the -- i followed up with shelby foote, and son and father. these are all fantastic writers. nobody can compete with their writing style. but through the years, and certainly, as i went into medicine, i graduated medical school in 1975. and through my training in the '70s and early part of the '80s as i was reading more and more about civil war, it became obvious, at least to me, that combat and suffering and death were glorified. and that pomp and circumstance, masked deadly ferociousness of the battlefield. this reached at least in my mind, the zenith with mcpherson's, "battle cry of freedom" 1989 when he won the pulitzer p