sandow, robert sandow, deserter country. i don't know another book that looks at desertion of northern armies like that, it's quite good. >> galvanized yankee, deserted, when the boat ended up in london he deserted again. that's not dissent, maybe just cowardice but he did find dr. livingston. we presume. >> this is a good one, why did so many civil war generals not conduct personal reconnaissance? >> you can get hurt doing that. >> there's the simple answer. >> i think, we know, sometimes we criticize generals, they're not at the front therefore derelict for duty at best and cowards at worst, but that's not their job. there their job is to be in the rear orchestrating everything. so baldy smith, from yesterday, he did conduct reconnaissance, to the detriment of the effort. he said there was no engineer officer sent to him and therefore he had to do it himself and he was ill and so he was crawling on his hands and knees in order to discover all these things, i think some of that is bs from badliy smith but to a certain degre

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robert sandow. i don't know of another book like it but it deserves. >> think of henry stanley who fought for the confederates and then to become a galvanized yankee and then joined the union and then then he deserted again. so that's not to send. maybe that's just cowardice. but he did go find doctor livingston and with those generals not conduct personal reconnaissance? [laughter] there is a simple answer often times we criticize generals and therefore they were derelict of duty of the cowardly at worst but that's not their job. to be doing that. their job is to orchestrate everything. sobol the smith did conduct his own research and his own to the detriment of the effort and he said there was no engineer officer sent to him and therefore he had to do it himself and was ill and was calling on his hands and knees to discover all of these things. some of that is bs from baldy smith but. >> and then got wounded and then that cost arguably the confederacy a talented general where he should not have be