pat claiborne fought at shiloh and he learned a lot. and this, indeed, goes to the circumstance everybody has been talking about, hey, these soldiers were relatively inexperienced. many had been in the army for a year but had not been in hard combat such as shiloh. and per se, pat claiborne, when he made all of these discoveries in terms of not, for instance, making a reconnaissance of the terrain that he was supposed to attack over, in terms of attacking the mclernen/sherman portion of the line and he got bogged down in a swamp and his caused all sorts of problems where his brigade was split in half because of having to pass this almost impassable morass, he decided that there were certain things that he had learned and would employ in the future from the factical circumstances of the -- of being in the battle. in fact, it was pat claiborne who was attributed to the statement that shiloh was a battle brilliantly won and was stupidly lost. and that had to do with the tactical circumstances. i don't want to go on and on. there were a lot

and per se, pat claiborne, when he made all of these discoveries in terms of not, for instance, making a reconnaissance of the terrain that he was supposed to attack over, in terms of attacking the mclernen/sherman portion of the line and he got bogged down in a swamp and his caused all sorts of problems because his brigade was split in half because of having to pass this almost impassable morass, he decided that there were certain things that he had learned and would employ in the future from the tactical circumstances of being in the battle. in fact it was pat claiborne who was attributed to the statement that "shiloh was a battle brilliantly won and was stupidly lost." and that had to do with a lot of the tactical circumstances. i don't want to go on and on. but there were a lot of tactical lessons, i guess my point is, that were learned by a variety of commanders at shiloh. >> so we can get as many people as possible. let's just go on to the audience. >> my name is irene. i'm from nebraska. but i happen to be a confederate at heart. i'm proud to say that, by the way. i want to than