Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to episode 244 of our Civil War podcast. I'm Rich.

And I'm Tracey. Hello y'all. Welcome to the podcast. We're back. We're back and in our

new place. Yesterday we recorded a members episode, so that was actually the first to

show we did here in our new place. And some of you may remember that when we started the

podcast, oh so long ago now, we were recording in our kitchen, but we moved to the dining room

table at our last place. And we're still recording at the dining room table here. Our very fancy

recording studio, we just set the laptop up on the table and away we go. Anyway, anyway,

we wanted to say thanks for your patience as we took the last couple of weeks off from

the podcast to get ready to move and then to actually move last weekend. And all the

while in the backs of our minds, we knew all of you were waiting for us to come back and

finish up the Battle of Stones River. Oh well, we've kept you waiting long enough, so let's

get back to it. As you guys have recall, when we left off last time, the Confederate attack

was continuing to roll forward, attempting to snap shut the jackknife that was the federal

line and trapped the Yankees against Stones River. But Rose Cran's, the Union Army commander,

had used his brigade of regulars to buy the time he needed to stabilize his new line along

the Nashville Pike. Rose Cran's essentially traded the regular's lives for the necessary

time, and in 45 minutes of ferocious combat in the Seaters south of the Pike, the four United

States infantry regiments suffered a casualty rate of almost 45 percent. But as we said

last time, the regular sacrifice was an in vain because they had bought enough time for

Rose Cran's to set his army in position along the Nashville Pike. The army of the

Cumberland now stood in line running half a mile from Stones River to the Pike and along

the road for a mile and a half. Artillery along the rise between the railroad and the

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