This episode fills in the gap between Gettysburg/Vicksburg in the summer of 1863 and the beginning of Ulysses Grant & William T. Sherman’s total war campaigns of 1864, including some lesser-known (but still important) campaigns and battles.
Join CJ as he discusses:
- William Rosecrans’ Tullahoma Campaign
- The Battle of Chickamauga
- The siege of Chattanooga
- Grant’s breaking of the siege, including the storming of Lookout Mountain and the miraculous taking of Missionary Ridge
- The resignation of Braxton Bragg (finally)
- The Bristoe Station & Mine Run campaigns in northern Virginia
- Lincoln’s Dec. 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
- “Christmas Bells” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The appoint of Grant as overall Union commander, and Grant’s appointment of Sherman to command the Division of the Mississippi
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