Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to episode 412 of our Civil War Podcast.

I'm Rich.

And I'm Tracy.

Hello y'all.

Welcome to the podcast.

As y'all will recall, at the end of the last episode, the Confederates were fiercely

assaulting Horseshoe Ridge on the afternoon of September 20th, 1863, the third day of the

Battle of Chica Maga.

In the face of those rebel attacks, the Federal's defending the high ground were hanging on

with grim desperation, but their situation was steadily deteriorating.

Meanwhile, six miles away, Union Major General Gordon Granger had been making the decision

of his life as a soldier.

Station north of the battlefield at Rossville Gap, with orders to hold that point, he had

fredded through the sounds of battle the day before.

Then when Sunday the 20th brought even more intense thunders from the south and mounting

clouds of powder smoke drifting into the sky, Granger faced his moment of truth as an army

officer.

Should he obey orders and stay out of the fight?

Or should he reckon that Rose Cran's needed him but had somehow failed to get word to

him?

During the bull by the horns and risking a court-martial, Granger decided to march to the

sound of the gans.

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