Ah, yes. Thank you for confirming this.
As a man, and soldier, I must say that I never found him remotely attractive, and his Civil War career I seem to recall as having been bizarrely fortunate (many others were found out).
Actually, he seems to have had a knack of seeking out positions and cultivating people who would promote him - he was on the receiving end of an extraordinary number of "lucky breaks" - and protect him - and I do recall having been struck at how good he was at self-promotion, (in the absence of independent evidence which might have suggested that he actually the talents, military and otherwise, that had been ascribed to him, not least by himself).
Well, he must have had some sort of charisma - or charm - which persuaded people to do what he wished them to do for him.
Mind you, it is entirely possible that he thought his luck would never run out.
By contrast, last year, I read a biography of W T Sherman, which I found absolutely fascinating.
