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With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox

The letters of Theodore Lyman, an aide-de-camp to General George Meade, offer a witty and penetrating inside view of the Civil War. Scholar and Boston Brahmin, Lyman volunteered for service following the battle at Gettysburg. From September 1863 to t

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“A shell exploded in front of him while writing. Glanced up, went back to writing. A shell decapitated a horse next to him while he was looking through field glasses. He kept his eyes on the front. Ulysses don't scare worth a drama.”

— Theodore Lyman, amazon.com

Tagged: Nerve

“Grant doing a photoshoot with Matthew Brady midafternoon. Brady sends an assistant upstairs to cover the skylight. He slips and shatters the light. Shards of glass two inches thick fall exactly where Grant is sitting. Each one could have killed him. Brady looks over. Grant hasn't moved. He is unhurt…”

— Theodore Lyman, amazon.com

Tagged: Nerve

“The only man who, at the first shock, ran towards the scene of terror was Grant... which shows his kind of character very well.”

— Theodore Lyman, amazon.com

Tagged: Nerve, Responsibility