Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to episode number 416 of our Civil War Podcast.

I'm Rich.

And I'm Tracy.

Hello y'all.

Welcome to the podcast.

With this episode, we're going to continue our look at some things that we're going on

in a few spots other than the area around Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Where we finished up with the Chica Maga story arc, and before we start in on the siege

of Chattanooga, which will be another major story arc, well, we thought we'd move around

and talk about a few other things that were happening elsewhere around this same general

time period in 1863.

For example, we cast our eyes toward Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas and spent a couple

of shows looking at the circumstances surrounding the Lawrence Massacre in August 1863.

And now we thought we'd spend a couple or three episodes back in the Eastern theater of

the war, looking at what was going on with George Meade and the Army of the Potomac,

and with Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, following the Confederates retreat

after their defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg.

In this little story arc, we'll culminate with the Battle of Bristol Station in October

1863.

The Army of the Potomac that emerged after the bloody slug-fastic Edeysburg was different

in several significant ways.

During those three fateful days at the beginning of July 1863, Major General George Meade

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