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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 ...

supreme command lincoln told him as my dear friend sol bunning emphasized in fatherly fashion, "the particulars of your plan i neither know nor seek to know. i wouldn't wish to put constraints or restraints on you. if there's anything wanting which is in my power to give, do not fail to let me know." grant took the president at his word. he genuinely believed that defensive duties could be performed just as effectively by armies on the advance rather than those sitting still. so he issued orders accordingly. when he learned that some field officers were writing congressmen, cabinet m...