A general who can write quickly and clearly is a wonderful thing to have
General Meade’s chief of staff, Maj. Gen. A.A. Humphreys, once said that, “There is one striking thing about Grant’s orders: no matter how hurriedly he may write them on the field, no on ever had the slightest doubt as to their meaning, or ever had to read them over a second time to understand them.”
General Meade’s chief of staff, Maj. Gen. A.A. Humphreys, once said that, “There is one striking thing about Grant’s orders: no matter how hurriedly he may write them on the field, no one ever had the slightest doubt as to their meaning, or ever had to read them over a second time to understand them.”
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Mathew Brady or Levin Handy/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection
General Meade’s chief of staff, Maj. Gen. A.A. Humphreys, once said that, “There is one striking thing about Grant’s orders: no matter how hurriedly he may write them on the field, no one ever had the slightest doubt as to their meaning, or ever had to read them over a second time to understand them.”
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection
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