Hey everyone, welcome to episode number 168 of our Civil War podcast.

My name is Rich.

And those crickets chirping this week where Tracy usually chimes in are because Tracy is

more than a bit under the weather this weekend.

It took her longer than it usually does, the beginning of a new school year to get sick.

But whatever the kids are passing around now, she caught this past week.

So you guys are stuck with me for this show.

Sorry, I'm sure you aren't any happier about that than I am, but hopefully she'll be back

for the next episode.

And we'll make this show short and sweet since I'm flying solo.

Alright, so previously on the podcast, we looked at the action at the last battle of the

seven days campaign, the Battle of Malvern Hill.

And we'd said that Malvern Hill was one of the most misunderstood battles of the Civil

War.

And we said that since there seems to be the notion that Robert E. Lee simply decided

to line up his army and sent the poor Confederate infantry charging uphill over half a mile

of open ground into the teeth of a vast host of federal artillery, which was a raid

wheel to wheel on Malvern Hill.

But we wanted to spend quite a bit of time showing that what happened at Malvern Hill

wasn't quite that clear cut.

We wanted to show that it was really a confusion of circumstances on the Confederate side that

led to the disaster at Malvern Hill.

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