49: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns

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🗓️ 14 October 2019

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“In my opinion, Cadet Jackson of Virginia is a complete jackass.” This is the story of daring. On both sides. President Lincoln is tired of waiting for General-in-Chief George “Little Mac” McClellan to act. So he’ll act instead. The President goes to the front on the Old Dominion’s coast, walks on Confederate soil, and oversees the taking of Norfolk, Virginia. But things aren’t going as well for the Union as he’d hope. Little Mac continues to dawdle while the eccentric-yet-brilliant “Stonewall” Jackson outwits, outruns, and outguns Union forces several times larger than his own in the Shenandoah Valley. Following Stonewall’s incredible Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Confederate General Joe Johnston takes a bullet at the Battle of Seven Pines. Someone else is going to have to lead his army; welcome to the role of commander, Robert E. Lee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.6	Ah, another sailor has failed to match the strength of President Lincoln.
0:55.6	It's an early May morning, 1862, and we're aboard the luxurious, two-masted and sting-powered
1:01.6	yacht turned five-gun Treasury Department-owned vessel, the Miami.
1:07.4	Ever the entertainer, President Lincoln found an axe and held it out by the tip of its
1:11.3	handle with his arm fully extended and only using his thumb and index finger.
1:18.5	He did this with ease for several minutes.
1:22.6	So of course, all the strongest, manly sailors aboard are now trying to demonstrate that
1:27.7	they can keep up with their old man of a President.
1:31.2	But to their embarrassment, not a single one can.
1:39.6	What can I say?
1:40.6	General Egbert Ville, whose present in witness this feat of strength, isn't exaggerating
1:45.5	in his description of Lincoln.
1:47.6	Quote, in muscular power, he was one in a thousand.
1:51.8	Close quote.
1:52.8	But despite the jokes, stories, and wittestisms of Lincoln being enjoyed on the Miami, this
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