Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to episode number 207-227.

I'm Tracey, hello y'all, welcome to the podcast.

We covered a lot of ground in the last episode as we set the stage for the battles of a you-get

in Corinth.

And with this week's show, we want to pick back up right where we left off with that

story, which was with Earl Van Dorn finally letting sterling price know that he was ready

to cooperate with price.

Yep, it was after his plan to retake Baton Rouge failed that Van Dorn informed price

that he was finally ready to cooperate with him.

And FYI, but just yesterday we released the first of what will be two members episodes

about the battle of Baton Rouge, so we're in the middle of sharing that story with the

members of the straw foot brigade.

But anyway, here with Van Dorn in price, Van Dorn said he needed two weeks to get ready,

but suggested that then they take their combined forces up into western Tennessee, march

up into western Kentucky, and capture Paduca on the Ohio River.

Van Dorn was given to flights of strategic fancy, and this idea was another example of that.

They send Van Dorn together might have a chance of retaking Corinth if luck was on their

side, but the notion that they could water their horses in the Ohio River was absurd.

At any rate, although his strategic dreams would have to be toned down to reality, it

was good for the Confederates that Van Dorn was at least ready to work with price.

Because over in Tennessee, Braxton Bragg was getting ready to move out from Chattanooga,

and the success of Bragg's upcoming campaign depended to some degree on better cooperation

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