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organization, and reward it rather than, of course, this was a technique of grant s. the campaign the army of the potomac s campaign, according to one grant biographer was quote, a hideous disaster in every respect save one. it worked. it was in the military strategy, in the wilderness, an affair of nightmarish inhumanity, an inept military strategy that ranks one of the worst such episodes in our history of national warfare. to soldiers of the two next generations when they were searching for comparisons of the agony of war and the argon forest in 1918, and in the hertgen forest in the fall and winter of 44/ 45, they thought immediately of the wilderness. you must permit me to say also to this audience, because look so many of our fellow americans, we are drawn to the civil war and to the second world war. but we forget what the country was up to in 1917, 1918. think abut these numbers just for a moment. in the seven weeks of the battle in the argon, we lost 26,500 ....