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🗓️ 2 June 2019
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In which we look at the Federal attack on Arkansas Post on January 11, 1863.
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0:30.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to episode 282 of our Civil War Podcast. |
0:40.2 | I'm Rich. |
0:41.7 | And I'm Tracy. |
0:42.7 | Hello y'all. |
0:44.0 | Welcome to the podcast. |
0:46.2 | As y'all recall, we spent much of the last episode talking about William to come to |
0:50.8 | Sherman's defeat at Chickasaw Bayou, North of Vicksburg, at the end of December 1862. |
0:58.8 | Did this show will pick right back up with the story, with what happened in the immediate |
1:03.8 | aftermath of the battle? |
1:06.1 | Well, on December 30th, the day after Chickasaw Bayou, John McClernid arrived in Memphis |
1:13.8 | and discovered that Sherman had gone down the Mississippi River 10 days earlier with the |
1:19.4 | troops that he, that is McClernid, had raised and thought he would command. |
1:26.7 | So McClernid set out and pursued, correctly convinced that he had been outmaneuvered by |
1:31.6 | a click of West Pointers. |
1:34.8 | He caught up with Sherman at Milliken's bend and learned of the defeat at Chickasaw Bayou. |
1:40.8 | The next day, January 4th, 1863, McClernid assumed command of what he called the Army of |
1:49.0 | the Mississippi. |
1:51.0 | For the next few weeks, McClernid acted as though he was an independent Army commander, |
1:56.6 | which is precisely what he considered himself to be. |
2:00.5 | Remember, due to an unfortunate breakdown in federal communications, McClernid was unaware |
2:06.8 | that he was now merely the Senior Corps Commander in Ulysses-S Grants Army of the Tennessee. |
2:14.3 | At any rate, another assault against the Walnut Hills was out of the question. |
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