Le Civil War ( American )

[Marshal Davout]

In a miss-spent youth; I became enamored of the US Civil War and so I became a "Buff" back in the day as they called them. And so I know too much about the Civil War; except that there is no Money in it ! Blast ! And so I can recognize most CW Generals by their picture and if I was transported back in time; I would know who they were !
Lincoln had some dispatches for the army; but the telegraph lines were not strung yet and so he sent some Lieutenants from the war dept riding down to the army to give them to Grant ( who was commander of all the US armies ). However they didn't know Grant on sight; so when they got to the army; they reported to the most dapper looking Major-General they could find; which was Custer of the Cavalry. Custer had his own batman who kept his uniforms clean so he had a new one on every day ! So they reported to Custer; but Custer had to tell them; that guy over there by the wagon in the dirty and dusty uniform is Grant; and so they had to report again to him !
Later; in the war, Grant had stolen a march on Lee and had got two of his Corps south of the James river and was advancing on Petersburg. Grant was going to cut Lee off from his supplies before he knew it ! It was held by only 2 small brigades under General Beuaregard; who telegraphed Lee "I have caught prisoners from two corps of the Army of the Potomac advancing on Petersburg ! This place will fall; unless you send reinforcements immediately. I am Sir your Obedient Servant, P.G.T. Beauregard, General, C.S.A. !"
Lee played Leap-frog with his army ; sending the forces from the middle fortifications south to hold Petersburg and then moving his northern forces into the vacated fortifications. Burnside the union commander didn't realize that the Confederate forces opposite him had left their trenches and so Lee got away with this slight of hand !
And so Beauregard had saved the Confederacy for about another year !