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The book. You have a question . Obviously casualties at the highest levels. It does seem again and again that they lost critical players. Nobody to replace them. At the beginning of the war was their training can malcolm. The kind of had that system. Regimental commanders moved up to brigade. They just kept promoting people. Some really good commanders emerged. For example, on the confederate side john gordon became commanded one of lease. He was a warrior. Some people have a military bill that had emerged. There were a lot of failures. People came in from the regular army with some rank. They just were not up to it. There was a real sorting process confederates really felt by the end of the war the attrition of their officers more than union. That was their great advantage at the beginning of the war. They had better leaders. By the end those people, many of them are gone. And so lee took, as i was saying, more and more. [inaudible conversations] oh, i am sorry. Kind of a silly questi ....