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🗓️ 11 April 2025
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0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather. |
0:25.6 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
0:35.7 | This is CBS. I on the World. |
0:36.8 | I'm John Batchel. |
0:54.8 | It is April 1st, 1865. I welcome my colleague Patrick K. O'Donnell, the best-selling author of the new book, The Unvanquished, the untold story of Lincoln's Special Forces, the manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the Shadow War that forged America's special operations. This is a scene from inside Patrick's telling of three generals, three Confederate |
1:02.1 | generals, and a fish fry, April 1st, 1865. They are Tex Rosser with a division, George Pickett |
1:09.9 | with a division, and Fitzhuevallee with a cavalry. |
1:14.3 | They are enjoying themselves because nothing's going to happen today. |
1:18.5 | Patrick, a very good evening to you. |
1:20.6 | Nothing's going to happen today. |
1:22.5 | And they didn't tell their adjutants where they were going. |
1:24.9 | What kind of fish, Patrick, and what river? |
1:27.2 | Good evening to you. Good evening, John. It's great to be with you today. |
1:31.7 | This is the Notaway River, which is outside of Five Forks, Virginia, which is outside of Petersburg, |
1:37.7 | which is at this point in 1865, the most important territory in North America. |
1:43.9 | And Lee tells these men that they have to hold at all costs. |
1:46.9 | But the weather isn't, it's kind of a little bit damp today, and they don't think there's |
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