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Okay. I'm Rich. And I'm Tracy. Hello, y'all. Thanks for tuning

into the podcast. With the last episode, we finished up the Overland campaign. So with this show,

as promised, we're starting a new major story arc as we leave Virginia

and head down to Georgia for the Atlanta campaign.

We're very excited to be starting this story arc.

The struggle for Atlanta was one of the most significant campaigns of the Civil War.

It's not going too far out on a limb to say it was one of

the pivotal events of the Civil War. It not only led to the federal's capture of the city,

but Sherman's success also helped decide the outcome of the 1864 presidential contest, with Lincoln's re-election that

November.

From our coverage of the Overland campaign, y'all know that, like the several federal expeditions

in Virginia that spring, the fighting through the North Georgia Mountains in mid-1864 was also the result of a strategy

initiated by Ulysses S. Grant soon after his promotion to General and Chief of the Union

armies.

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