epi >> no, it's one of my veryene favorite episodes in the books.a robert e. lee is there, his uniform is spotless, andth there's. yulless seize s. grant. was he just wasn't into all that. but he sees lee's sword, and one of the things happened was he decided to let lee and his men and officers go home, did not keep them there.e fo these were traitors, after all, they had rebelled existencean their country. g and granto said, go home, live your life in peace promising never to raise arms against the united states government again. and it was the sight of that sword. so, imagine, we're at this pivotal moment when everything is changing, when we're going to this new kind of technology,nd w when war's going to be a matter of innovative weaponry andut i technology, but it's a sword,th the simplest weapon there is, ac piece of metal dangling from robert e. lee's waist that persuades grant to let the men go home and to show this charity and mercy. it was the sword, it was this great crossing, as you say, between the romantic age and this tough new technological age that

he told them he was a relative of robert e. lee. they thought that was wonderful. this american strategist with great credentials to was not a relative of robert e. lee. they hired him to help organize and train this ramshackle army they were putting together in china. in the summer of 1900 he went to china, got on the army which is not really a former army by today's standards, and wandered around china not accomplishing much. this coincided with the boxer rebellion. a lot of discord and activity. the military was crushed by the government. he left china and came back to the united states. next a set of going back to china and leading resurrected forces, and the military force, he set up a training scheme and america, a covert training plan across american cities, across the nation over 2,000 chinese joint military schools. in reality it was a thin veil for training a covert army. supposed to teach conventional english, math, social studies, this, that, and the other. in reality they just had drill instructors that or formal soldiers for the u.s. army to the bought