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Music Hey, everyone. Hey, everyone. Thanks for tuning in to episode number 513 of our Civil War podcast. My name is Rich and Tracy won't be with us today. She's feeling a bit under the weather.

I think we've mentioned before that Tracy, after many years of teaching, transitioned several years ago to coaching and training teachers.

And while she enjoys that role, one of the risks of going into different schools all the time, especially this time of year, when they're filled with kids who have runny noses and sore throats, is that you may come home with a runny nose and sore throat.

So she's relieved of podcast duties this weekend. you may come home with a runny nose and sore throat.

So she's, yeah, relieved of podcast duties this weekend,

but we'll soldier on with the Atlanta campaign.

As you guys will recall at the end of the last episode,

the Confederates were pulling back again. They'd already been maneuvered out of a very strong position at Dalton and then fallen back from Reesaka, Calhoun, and Adairsville. Now, here they were,

once again, withdrawing under cover of night, this time from the Cassville Ridge.

And many of the rebel troops were depressed by the events of May 19th. That morning, as he

anticipated a battle at Cassville, Confederate commander Joseph E. Johnston had issued a bombastic order, announcing

the Army of Tennessee's retreat had ended, and it would turn the tables on its pursuers.

Well, Johnston's confident announcement had been a morale booster among the retreat-weary rebel troops, and so that night

they were bitterly disappointed when they realized they were abandoning yet another position,

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