Im the chair of the special Investigative Committee and thanks for joining us for this very special book for him. What i want to do now is turn this over. As you know the American Veteran centers presenting the Andrew Goodpaster award and i want to turn it over to jim roberts. [applause] thank you very much tom peter. And officers of the army and navy club thank you for being our partners for this evenings lecture. Ladies and gentlemen on behalf of my colleagues at the American Studies Center i welcome you to the armynavy club for the presentation of the eighth annual Andrew Goodpaster award named after he read rate american and presented to another Great AmericanLieutenant Colonel ralph peters retired. Before her proceed further i would like to say that we are honored by the presence of Andrew Goodpasters granddaughter and her husband matt. Would you please stand. [applause] is great to have representation as we have always had from the goodpaster family here. I would also like to thank the foundation for underwriting the goodpaster lecture and extend a special will come to diane sailors director of Academic International cultural programs at the bradley foundation. Diane would you please stand. [applause] Joe Goodpaster was a special individual to all of us at the American Veteran center from 1997 to 2004 he was the keynote speaker at our annual conference a role which he relished because of the large number of high school and College Students that attended. Despite his design was record spanning many decades he was ours a man of the present in the future. He reminded the students in the audience that world war ii was won essentially by young soldiers airmen and sailors and marines not much older than today that freedom must be defended and by every generation since the attack on september 11, 2001 america has been involved in another world war, a war on terrorism much different than world war ii but equally threatening in that it is their challenge of their generation to wage to win it. I have been in washington for 40 years now and ive known to be effectually city. Joe goodpaster rose above that in a toxic environment. He was a rare individual esteem by individuals across the ideological and individual spectrums. Embody the qualities that we think of as virtues among them courage, loyalty generosity discipline modesty diligence among many others. His was a truly remarkable life. He was a graduate of west point highly decorated the tying commander in world war ii. He held masters and doctoral degrees from princeton university. He stirred served as staff secretary to president eisenhower was supreme allied commander nato, Deputy Commander of u. S. Forces in vietnam served in a time of crisis is the superintendent of United States military at west point. He was the recipient of two purple hearts and a distinguished Service Cross the nations secondhighest award for valor and the medal of freedom which is the nations highest civilian award. He was a member of the missions too numerous to mention. Academic scholar, author, loving husband and father, grandfather thomas soldier, scholar, patriot, family man. We will not soon see his likes again. Thank you for being here tonight to honor general goodpasters memory and to honor the worthy recipient of the award named after him. One of the young people that general goodpaster influenced is tim holford executive director of the American Studies Center and our American Veteran center affiliate and in fact tim is the one who originated the idea of the goodpaster lecture and price. Its appropriate that salmon to reduce this years award e. These welcome mr. Tim holberg. [applause] thank you jim. On behalf of the American Veteran center im honored to be here to introduce tonight honore. I would like to offer warm welcome. Tonights lecture is one of many projects throughout the year which the legacy and honors the sacrifice of our military men and women of every generation. Over the last two decades the abc has collected thousands of oral histories from American Veterans from the First World War to present day. We have produced dozens of radio and Television Documentary programs including the recently concluded a final toast airing nationwide on Public Television this fall. And every detachment say we can we bring together hundreds of students from each of our nations military academies and several dozen rotc programs where they meet many of our nations most distinguished veterans. If the abc annual conference there are virtues of leadership for gaining a better bridge nation for our military heroes past and present area in that same weekend the abc produced the first televised awards show honoring our military veterans and active duty. This veterans Day Television special airs on cable nationwide every fall. As many of you may have recently seen the abc sponsored and produced the national oriole day parade held on constitution avenue in washington which we brought back after a sevenyear absence from world war ii. We revived it in 2005. Now its the locations largest memorial day event drawing some 300,000 spectators and television audience. Many programs are especially meaningful to us honoring the memory of one of our great friends mentors general Andrew Goodpaster. Not only to honor his legacy puts a spotlight the work of fellow soldiers golers. Tonight honore certainly fits that mold. He rose from psc to lend a colonel over 22 year army career where he served as a military intelligence officer. This career left and wellsuited for any educator publishing in journals such as parameter military view usa today the wall street journal for Washington Post and New York Post among many other newspapers and regularly appears on the fox news channel. In addition to several nonfiction works he also has the distinction of being the first goodpaster prize to be a novelist. His latest work valley of the shadow is the latest of this acclaimed series on the civil war. Ladies and gentlemen its my distinct honor to introduce one of our nations preeminent soldiers scholars and recipient of the 2015 Andrew Jackson and goodpaster prize to turn it. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] you are a lucky audience. It is thundering and raining outside so you timed it really well. Im so grateful for the work. So much so that i wont belabor the point. When i was working on my masters degree i wrote a thesis on natos early formative decades and of course general goodpaster had an Important Role to play in that. I wish i could remember what i wrote. [laughter] its been a while. But im honored and i thank you. Now, if i were a true washingtonian what i would do is begin by delivering carefully crafted wonderfully humble remarks telling you how great i am but since im not a good washingtonian rather i want to talk about leadership. So although most of the characters im going to discuss a the drawn from a current book valley of the shadow im calling this the civil war and the mistress of leadership because at the end of the day at the end of many a long day throughout history, leadership at its highest level remains a mystery. When i was lieutenant then Second Lieutenant our First Lieutenant i dutifully read all the great military books i could get my hands on and i was looking for the answer. How do you be a great leader . And there was a lot of valuable information along the way and the military study how to turn out leaders and you can check certain things integrity sense of duty here for the troops but beyond the check was sent beyond the manuals beyond the helpful hints and memoirs there is still this great mystery and leadership does not often formulaic. Leadership comes in many varieties. I am always astonished even limiting it to the civil war alone. The remarkable cast of leaders and the great great friday and so what i would like to do tonight is to give you some snapshots, some aural snapshots of the men who particularly intrigued me. And some are professional soldiers, some are not but they all do their best north and south to serve their country to the best of their abilities and at times their achievements and their courage, their ability to galvanize soldiers to incredible acts of valor again still remains a mystery. I will start with someone who really should read the patron saint of the soldiers who write looks. And that is general lou wallace the forgotten man who served washington. Can anybody tell me anything about lou wallace out there . Very good. Lou wallace was an indiana man politician soldier. He served in texas and northern mexico briefly. A local militia in indiana and when the war came he was much better prepared than many of the other men who would become political generals as they were called. Lou wallace was a strong sense of duty to the country. He was not a west pointer. It was one strike against him in the west because general Henry Hollings before you came east was called that was his nickname and he actually said and im paraphrasing that volunteer generals were no better than criminals. He felt that you were not a west pointer is simply couldnt do it. The interesting thing about lou wallace is he did do it at for donaldson his first really important victory. When the confederates launched their attack grant us talking to the naval commander on the river and lou wallace is under orders to stay where he is and not move. Lou wallace sees big union lying to his right is collapsing and he disobeyed orders and attacks for donaldson falls. Fastforward to shiloh a few months later. At Shiloh Lou Wallace tries very hard to obey his orders to the letter. Very big vague orders the situation overtakes the orders and shiloh is such a disaster that they need a scapegoat. As much as i admire grant and sherman the first day of shiloh was not their finest hour. They fought hard to pull through but they let their guard down and made false assumptions. The army was not prepared to lou wallace is several miles in the distance gets the orders to march but the route he takes is the wrong route. He gets there by the evening. He decides that everything was lou wallace is also lou wallace is sent packing back to indiana. He wants to get back in the fight. During the raid in cincinnati neighboring ohio he still cant get back in. Finally his supporters and his politics on all sides of this but his supporters get lou wallace reinstated in active service in the military District Center on baltimore, hardly the front lines. Wallace has no troops under his command except some guards, some rotating militia. He does his best. His number one duty is to make sure the elections run smoothly. Then in the summer of 1864 something happens. All the Intelligence Services of the union army all the intelligence work in washington, all the information gatherers jubal early between 16 and 20,000 confederates storming of the valley of virginia in the Shenandoah Valley into maryland toward washington. They are going to take washington and grant us convinced, and i admire grant he is convinced nobody to leave the lines. He is in the mall down and he keeps getting these new reports of dismissals. The only person getting good intelligence is the head of the b. And o. Railroad. He takes the reports from a station master saying they are tearing up tracks and takes them to lou wallace and lou wallace believes hes the only guy in north of the potomac that believes any of this. Washington keeps poohpoohing the rumors that washington is coming. Lou wallace on his own initiative and his western boundary is the monoxide monoxide river river. Lou wallace gathers up what we called clerks and militias and he gets between two and 2000 recruits in militiamen out there he gets a battery of artillery really only two functional guns in the key part of battle and he gets regular calvary and he grabs them. Lou wallace is determined to make a stand. He knows that everything is about time and he is on the menachem c. He is trying to delay an entire army marching as hard as they can for frederick and washington. He is not sure theyre going to baltimore or washington buddy bets on washington and finally washington wakes up and grant wakes up. They start rushing forces up to annapolis and washington but they are running late. Its close. The day before early is about to hit wallaces main position. Brilliantly and beautifully chosen on the south of the monocacy river. He gets about twothirds divisions from the six core which brings them up to a total of under 6000 men half of whom are green recruits. He got 16,000 confederates at this point and early has heard theres nothing out there but militia. Lou wallace and another forgotten man James Ricketts multiple lens, a very brave general. He is not the kind of guy that electrifies the media. They make a stand on the monocacy. Its dramatized in the book but its incredible what they do. Brilliant tactics. Finally chosen terrain, they hold early off from early in the morning until Late Afternoon when finally they are enveloped. There are collapsing and it gives wallace a chance to rest with the vision and get him out of there and ricketts wont do it rate they stay in the fight. As a result of that kind of leadership would wallace taking risks doing what has to be done jim ricketts waltzes authority when troops are arriving by train. They were supposed to go to harpers valley and taken to the heart of battle the battle. Jim ricketts on the sun decides no the fight is here am i will stay. Risking courtmartial at worse but they save the union. When the confederates finally and terribly hot weather todays later they literally get within the newly completed capital dome and within the same hour the confederates skirmishes are approaching the washington defenses. The six core is washing marching up seventh street. Had they not made that stand on the monocacy virtually forgotten today early would have sees washington and burned it and washington would have burned twice. What is the leadership lesson . Obviously there are any lessons india can job them yourself but sometimes that role of courage to do what you believe is right even you know there will be penalties and there were penalties, thats critical. Lou wallace the thanks he gets henry holick persuades everyone that was wasted live senate debacle and was fired in disgrace. When jim ricketts and others start telling the story he is finally reinstated as rank etc. But he is never given a combat command again because the indiana politics. They do not want the wallace to be a successful politician after after the war said he cant be given a grant. It was even more political than than it is now but theres a grant makes him governor of the new mexico territories after the war because grant knows what he did in the then crumbling palace then crumbling palaces of the governors of santa fe he completes it while dealing with billy the kid and the Lincoln County war. That all sounds like a career but later hes appointed the equivalent of an ambassador. The Sultans Court in constantinople. Lou wallace being lou wallace and dave proud hoosier and midwestern guy gets to the core which is overregulated to say the least and at the first encounter, the first audience he swaps out six out of 10 and the southerners are what . Whiskey thank foxtrot. [laughter] he takes lou wallaces hand and lou wallace becomes his First Western adviser and they are supposed to be his friends as they can be and the circumstances. When the president of the administration change back in the spoils system is very active bath salts and personally sent a letter to the american president saying how can a mere change of presents bring the wallace so lou wallace starts a writers renaissance in indiana and does Public Service until the end of his days. Im fascinated by these forgotten figures. And then move to the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. One thing i worry about today is army and military is the political correct as to the point where you dare not speak. That one washington the civil war because some may have heard me say in the past we were meant to size a the civil war, put them up on a pedestal and everyone is clean and heroic and everyone speaks like a they didnt. And the Shenandoah Valley confrontation between early and Phil Sheridan in the late summer and early autumn of 1864 many lives could have been saved if these armies had just lined up and sheridan and jubal early had walked out in front of the armies and had a cursing contest. They were flamboyantly obscene profane, call it what you will. The curious thing is both of these men served leaders who dont use obscenity. Robert auv is obsessed with the ideals of being basically a gentleman. His code is locked in the 1820s and 1830s. His speech patterns are. Lee, you dare not curse around him, you just dont do it that early gets away with it. Grant doesnt use obscenities. Once in a while he will say dan but hes amazed by people who do his key aides john wallace and the love shared in and sheridan went off on these wild madcap irish tirades. The lesson of this is not that you have to curse like a drill sergeant to be a successful leader but leaders come in many forms. You have incredibly inspirational robert e. Lee who was a rigid general and you get jubal early. Jubal early like so many of the confeder