52: From Second Bull Run, or Second Manassas to Antietam, or Sharpsburg

History That Doesn't Suck

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🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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“Come on God damn you.” This is the story of the Second Bull Run/Manassas Campaign and the Battle of Antietam. Robert “Bobby” E. Lee isn’t content to run George “Little Mac” McClellan down to the James River. With the help of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, James Longstreet, J.E.B. Stuart, and others, Bobby’s ready to use his aggressive, divide and conquer tactics on the Union’s new Army of Virginia. The question is: can the bickering Union generals put their pettiness aside and work together? Or will the Confederates make short work of them at the Manassas railroad junction? Bobby Lee has another bold plan as well: time to take the fight to US soil. The Virginian Commander invades the US slave-state of Maryland, where he hopes to enlist Confederate sympathizers, demoralize Americans going to vote, and draw international recognition for the CSA. It’s an ambitious goal. And it means fighting the most deadly, violent battle in American history near Antietam Creek, right by Sharpsburg, Maryland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.0	Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck.
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1:15.0	It's about 5.30 pm, August 28, 1862.
1:21.0	Union General Erwin McDowell's third corps marching eastward along Virginia's warrington-term pike.
1:27.0	With the faint sound of artillery off in the distance, his units in the front move at a relaxed pace,
1:32.0	chatting it up while taking in the old Dominion's picturesque farmland.
1:36.0	Some are likely cracking jokes about the Army of Virginia's commander, John Pope.
1:43.0	The Long Bearded usually self-assured general ordered them west at 2 pm,
1:47.0	only to give counter-orders for them to head east at 5 in his desperate attempt to capture Thomas Stonewall Jackson and his Confederate forces.
1:56.0	Surely, some are lacking in John's apparent in aptitude.
2:00.0	But whatever the conversation, be that John's failures, gossip within their regiments, or tails from back home,
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