Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
“I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.”
“The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line.”