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Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to episode 434 of our Civil War podcast, I'm Rich.

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

As you guys will recall, by the time we reached the end of the last show, the Federals had

successfully stormed Missionary Ridge, and shattered the Confederate lines outside

Chattanooga on November 25th, 1863.

Amidst the smoke and chaos atop the ridge, Braxton Bragg did his best, riding one way and

the other, begging the rebel troops to rally, shouting, I am here, stop, don't disgrace yourselves.

But it was no use, the men were having none of it.

In this fight they had been laboring under a number of disadvantages.

There was the confusion about withdrawing the troops, manning the rifle pits at the foot

of the ridge, and the flawed positioning of the works at the crest.

But the final disadvantage under which the soldiers of the army of Tennessee suffered

was their own abysmal morale.

A long string of failures and perceived failures, bickering and backstabbing among the generals,

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