mckinley to take off your hat so you can see your head and they will know it is you -- so sheridan took his hat off and phil was back. because, what sheridan had done, starting in winchester, he had taken these men and made them an army and a 4:00 that a bugle blaring the charge, they rolled over what was left of the army of the valley and got a victory. i will be honest with you, when i first wrote my talk, it was my first book, and i don't talk about books at all, you know, , but i waswrote it young, dumb, and i'm not sure i wanted to overstate things, you know? and i don't think i gave this campaign its significance politically, but as time had gone by and i looked at this -- and there is no question that all of the land is critical to lincoln's political fortune -- but then you have in this region of the east, this region dominated by confederate arms in of, you have a drumroll , theyy, winchester they finally achieve victory. this sealed the deal for lincoln's administration as far as battlefield victories. now clearly, the end was in sight. at petersburg must have looked at this and said, look, we hav