I rise only to say that I do not intend to say anything.
– Ulysses S. Grant
I wrote as I did
in a spare craftsman style
knowing men died
the entire time I wrote
the entire time they read.
A man could be shot
while hacking though
the thicket of words
created by some generals
and die before he could act.
Knowing, then,
I wrote to dying men
and sometimes sent my dispatches
back to the living world
I demanded clarity of myself.
poetrytech 
Powerful piece.
Sometimes silence is king
Grant really did have a way with words and needed few to get his point across.
You’ve chosen such an enigmatic historical figure to address. I didn’t know this about his writing. Strong choice of verbs. Thank you.