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Chuck, is the document you're referring to the one that was printed in the Kansas Historical Society journal back in the 1930's? That's the one that was supposed to have been ditched back in the late 1860's because of all the prominent politicians and generals that Blunt trashed in his account, and was re-discovered in the 1930's.

I was in stitches by the time I finished reading it. Each new name mentioned by Blunt is immediately blamed for all his troubles. He makes Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny" look sane in comparison. They say that even paranoids have real enemies, but Blunt was over the top with all his conspiracies. No surprise that he died in the state insane asylum.

General Hood's postwar writings are usually cited as the classic example of a self-serving, blame-everyone-but-me memoir, but he can't hold a candle to Blunt.

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