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2/2: 1864:Sheridan's "whirling" ride to save the Union. Patrick K. O'Donnell, author, "The Unvanquished."

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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2/2: 1864:Sheridan's "whirling" ride to save the Union. Patrick K. O'Donnell, author, "The Unvanquished."

1864 Sheridan's Ride at Cedar Creek

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This is the CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor with my friend and colleague Patrick Koe Donald.

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The author of The New Book is The Unvanquished which is a story of irregular combat in the civil war,

0:46.6

special forces and in this instance the special forces were often riders, for the Confederates and for the Union side.

0:57.4

In this instance, because of good intelligence and because of a very good battle plan 14,000 approximately Confederates, as Patrick

1:06.8

says, most of them barefooted, surprised the hole in the Union line coming out of the fog and overwhelmed and rushed the

1:16.3

Union camp the battle's going very badly now we go back to Winchester and a man

1:21.8

named Sheridan Patrick who was Phil Sheridan at this

1:25.5

point what was his role? Phil Sheridan is in charge of the Union Army in the

1:35.0

of the Union Army in the Shenandoah Valley and he's just an extraordinary

1:38.0

battle leader, just a man of courage that not only is he's not a chair-born general in any manner he is

1:47.5

out front leading his troops in many cases but what makes Phil Sheridan also unique is his understanding of

1:55.4

intelligence and specifically utilizing the group that I write about the

2:01.8

Jesse Scouts or Lincoln Special Forces and these

2:06.0

are Union Scouts no more than 200 total that wear the uniform of the Confederacy in most cases to infiltrate behind the

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