halleck?s this henry he was born in 1815, he is the first of 13 children, of a farmer, and a daughter of a local magistrate. upstate newl from york, western bill, not too far from utica, new york. until he was 16, halleck lived a very unhappy childhood. was because heit could not get out from under his workr, who wanted him to on that farm. that is all he wanted to do. halleck wanted an education. so what he had to do to escape this agricultural drudgery, he went to live with his maternal givefather who was able to halleck the education he so wanted. wente age of 20, halleck to west point, but while he was at west point, he is finishing his degree at union college in new york. he gets his degree while he is in the middle of his west point years, and he also gets one of teaserst phi beta kappa from the founding union college. during his third year at west , halleck gave the fourth of july address, the fourth of july oration at west point. this was an honor that was left only for the best milita

halleck . he said at a moment, when every true man is laboring to his utmost, when the days are ought to be 40 hours long, general halleck is translating french $.09 a page, and sir, .09 in were to put those $ a box and shake them up, you would form a clear idea of general halleck's soul. wow. wouldn't you love to have that said about you? halleck did not translate during the war, but in the 1840's, when he was on a ship going around he braced himself, tied himself to a bedpost so he would translatingd he was at that time. so who was this henry halleck? he was born in 1815. he is the first of 13 children, of a farmer and a daughter of a local magistrate. they were all from upstate new ville, not too far from utica, new york. until he was 16, halleck lived a very unhappy childhood. the reason for it was because he could not get out from under his father, who wanted him to work on that farm. that is all he wanted him to do. halleck wanted an education. had to do tock escape this agricultural drud

first the jealousy of henry halleck, then don carlos buell, john mcclendon is the worst of all. there is also stephen hurlbut, nathaniel banks and grant's one-time friend william rosecrans. almost alleir allies of them allied themselves with newspaperman. communications and information and the creation of impressions versus the actual expression of fact. it is nothing new. as ralph told you in his talk. it is very evident there. these men constantly fed stories to her grant, by the charges of drunkenness. i will deal with that later on. lee never has to contend with that. he has no one working against him behind his lines except possibly long street, was more interested in getting an independent command of his own that he was in undercutting lee. directly,eport face-to-face, with jefferson davis. grant, through his career will report first to john c fremont, and henry halleck, briefly to georgia:, and then to -- briefly to george mcclellan, then hallec k again. talk about a losing hand. that is four deuces. grant starts the war in which virtually every division commander in 1862