48: The Battle of Shiloh: “Now boys, pitch in!”

History That Doesn't Suck

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🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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“Here boys, is as good a place as any on this battlefield to meet death!” This is the story of the Civil War kicking into a higher gear as two massive armies converge at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. Jealous Union generals are letting false rumors of Ulysses drinking on the job fly as they hope to benefit from his demise. But Ulys has some good people backing him up: Lincoln’s newest War Secretary Edwin Stanton and his good friend William Temcuseh “Cump” Sherman. But intrigue is the least of Ulysses “Unconditional Surrender” Grant’s concerns. He and Cump are facing down a massive Confederate force led by two highly capable generals: Albert Sidney Johnston and GT Beauregard. Torrential rain turns the ground to mud as nearly 100,000 men battle for the field. Ulys ends up on crutches, another general dies, while still others meet their end in the legendary “hornets’ nest” or elsewhere on the field. This lone battle will cause more American casualties than all American wars to date combined. Welcome to the Battle of Shiloh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.3	General Ulysses S. Grans hunkered down at his headquarters at Savannah, Tennessee.
1:22.6	Yes, Tennessee. You heard that right, as a storm rages.
1:29.0	It's been another exhausting day.
1:35.7	He mostly spent it some five miles or more to the south,
1:39.6	just on the other side of the Tennessee River at Pittsburgh Landing,
1:43.4	where his union forces have been skirmishing with rebels.
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