McClellan in charge

I would add "dispute resolution" to the list. =20

I left off in my reading just after the Battle of Bull Run (mid-July, 1861)=
. . .so I have a few months of catching up to do. . . but I will be reading=
along. I will try to get current next weekend.

Now that Lincoln has fired Gen. McDowell, I am eager to read about the Linc=
oln-McClellan relationship.

=20

-----Original Message-----
From: =09Yoder, Christian =20
Sent:=09Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:19 AM
To:=09Hall, Steve C. (Legal); Sager, Elizabeth
Subject:=09RE: Gossip

Hey friends, we are rapidly approaching October, and in our communal readin=
g of Shelby Foote, October is where things pick up and go steadily forward =
for three years. Let's dust off the big tome and read forward, month by mo=
nth together. Elizabeth, try not to read too much at a time, just find w=
here he is in October of 1861 and read slowly. This is a slow, savoring th=
ing, not a rapid read for escape and entertainment. With this big terroris=
t mess going on and eveything, the lessons for both business and life are g=
oing to be termendous. And, one final admonition, Elizabeth, when you get i=
nto his lengthy descriptions of troop maneuverings, try not to be bored, =
just take a pencil and paper and kind of sketch out what you think he is sa=
ying, the basic directions and movements...use your skills for calculating=
early termination payments and set offs. All of these battles are big net=
ting and set off messes. You are better qualified than you think to get in=
to this stuff. War is just a big messy chess game termination and set off=
. Try to get your imagination into it this way. ----cgy

-----Original Message-----
From: =09Hall, Steve C. (Legal) =20
Sent:=09Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:11 AM
To:=09Yoder, Christian; Sager, Elizabeth
Subject:=09RE: Gossip

And, if duty calls, he would understand. . . .

-----Original Message-----
From: =09Yoder, Christian =20
Sent:=09Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:09 AM
To:=09Hall, Steve C. (Legal); Sager, Elizabeth
Subject:=09RE: Gossip

There were those times, during the War, when fighters on one side of the li=
ne would gain personal knowledge of the presence of old friends, even relat=
ives, being directly across the lines, back there in the mass of enemey tro=
ops. The Union General Hancock had been a very close friend of the Confede=
rate General Armsted and on the eve of the final day at Gettysburg, had a =
moment or two remembering their good old days together in California. Wolf=
e and Krebs are out there somewhere "on the other side." Although I must c=
andidly confess that officer Krebs does not rank high in my humble judgemen=
t and is not among the significant players in the combat, Wolfe does. Wol=
fe was a player. He is out there somewhere on the otherside, talking to "t=
hem" and not to "us" at night, and this causes me the pain of sorely missin=
g a guy I spent many an hour beside in the trenches. I miss Greg. I hope =
I don't have to go head to head with him, but, if duty calls.....----cgy=
=20

-----Original Message-----
From: =09Hall, Steve C. (Legal) =20
Sent:=09Wednesday, September 26, 2001 9:45 AM
To:=09Yoder, Christian; Sager, Elizabeth
Subject:=09Gossip

I hear that former Enron marketers Greg Wolfe and Holli Krebs will be joini=
ng AEP. AEP does not yet have an office in Portland, but Greg is working o=
ut of his house. Holli has not yet started work because her non-compete ag=
reement is still in force.