When I was little I loved, just loved the John Ford movie The Horse Soldiers, a dramatization of Grierson’s Raid; I think I made my father take me four times. As an adult, unfortunately, I found it more or less unwatchable — the prettification of war just won’t wash for me now. (The famous scene with the military school students never happened during that raid; something like it did happen during Sherman’s sweep through the Carolinas, but it was a slaughter).