burnside can be take advantage of and exploited, as can mccl mcclellan, obviously. he doesn't get that good of read when it comes to grant. yes. there's something deeply wrong about the the potomac. i don't know if the historians have done such a great job. the army fights really hard as is effective. but it's generals. it's partly because mcclellan because a lot of the officers he selects and the culture he creates is passive ones. also beaten by the same team too often. there seems to be a sense they get the culture of losers. and what is the opposite thing in the army of northern virginia? they think they're always going to win. and what's interesting about is is it's not just the army thinks that. who else thinks that? and gallagher has a lot of it. >> that's part of it. and what other important group of people? the confederates. average confederates. so when you look at things like gettysburg. it's interesting. the public reaction is not that negative. it's sort of well, yeah, we wish it went better. the first day went for the confederacy. where did it happen?