50: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and Vicksburg

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🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This is the story of the Mississippi Valley in 1862. Navy Secretary Gideon “Father Neptune” Welles is moving forward with an audacious plan. He’s sending a fleet to sack the Confederacy’s largest city, New Orleans, via the Mississippi River. Can this fleet—commanded by a Southerner loyal to the Union—really take out two forts—commanded by a Northerner throwing in with the CSA—and claim the Big Easy? Meanwhile, Union generals are in disagreement as they move on a railroad junction called Corinth. But then Corinth’s Confederate General GT Beauregard is in the midst of his own dispute with CSA President Jefferson Davis. Will the bickering disrupt the front lines as the fight moves from Corinth to Vicksburg? Time will tell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to History that doesn't suck.
0:39.6	I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story.
0:45.0	It's mid-November 1861 in Washington City.
0:50.6	Commander David D. Porter can feel the palpable resentment of Assistant Secretary Gustavus
0:55.5	Fox and Chief Clerk William Faxon as he approaches the Navy Secretary's office.
1:02.3	Back in April, Secretary of State William Henry Seward secretly ordered Porter, who I am
1:07.5	calling by his last name since we have another David to meet today.
1:11.4	To take the USS Palatine down to Florida and bail out four pickings.
1:16.4	That sounds good and all, but as you know from episode 46, Navy leaders have been counting
1:21.0	on his powerful steam frigate to help at Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the
1:25.1	Civil War were literally being fired.
1:28.7	Gust was there in South Carolina.
1:30.9	He waited on the Palatine for hours, only to have it never show up.
1:36.2	None of this is Porter's fault per se, but given the look on Gust and Will's faces, I'd
1:41.7	say there a bit sore about it.
1:44.2	Hmm, Porter was hoping to chat with the Navy Secretary.
1:47.7	Right now, those prospects are looking slim.
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