One of my favorite leaders is Ulysses S. Grant who has been grossly under-rated both as a general and a president. You can now read his memoirs on-line and find gems such as this excerpt from his recollections of The Mexican War:
The paymaster was detained in Austin so long that, if we had waited for him, we would have exceeded our leave. We concluded, therefore, to start back at once with the animals we had, and having to rely principally on grass for their food, it was a good six days’ journey. We had to sleep on the prairie every night, except at Goliad, and possibly one night on the Colorado, without shelter and with only such food as we carried with us, and prepared ourselves. The journey was hazardous on account of Indians, and there were white men in Texas whom I would not have cared to meet in a secluded place.
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