the issue with hallock is different. he did not write memoirs. he never wrote any postwar articles talking about what he had done during the war. i was unaware of that time of body of correspondence except for what was in the or. i knew that he had written or edited a series of looks, this was -- books, this was before the war. they were technical publications. they were about the intricacies of property rights, international law, military theory. our my going to get into the mind of this man, a great man of prewar accomplishment. he had served longer than anyone else during the civil war on either side. nobody had been commanding general that long. it he is an important person. he was indeed the leading kins -- military thinker of that time. he was an important military figure in the civil war. hely in the war, orchestrated the union successes in the missouri, tennessee, kentucky area. opening union try amps up the western theater river system. he had something to do with the battle of the ridge. -- p ridge. property. sherman lost the same man w

student judith hallock picked up the book where grady mcwhiney left off. bragg was ans if opium eater, to get relief from his physical effects of having malaria. she can prove it but she does suggest it as a possibility. the other person i want to mention is kenneth. he is here at cwi this year. he is talking on a different topic at another building right now so he is not in the audience that in his book on perryville, he suggests not a health problem but a psychological problem. , let me see here, a psychosomatic illness called narcissistic personality disorder. i have to look at it because i do not remember these terms. he believed that bragg exhibited the symptoms of this disorder at times which he says resulted from excessive parental expectations and an inability to meet them. bragg presented a competent and idealized false self to the world but quietly doubted his ability to fulfill that role and that led to dramatic mood swings and a tendency to find scapegoats when things went wrong." decidep to you to whether the opium route or the narcissistic ro