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True spies from Spyscape Studios, wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. Thanks for tuning into episode number 523 of our Civil War podcast. My name is Rich.

And I'm Tracy. Hello, y'all. Welcome to the podcast. As y'all will recall with the last

episode, we set the stage for the fighting at the Dead Angle at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, 1864.

At the end of the last show, it was 8 a.m. on the morning of the 27th, which was the time Sherman had

set for all the federal attacks up and down the line to begin. And across from the dead angle,

14th Corps' artillery started to furiously show the Confederates.

The cannonating alerted the rebels to the fact that Trouble was on its way.

One of those Confederates right at the tip of the Dead Angle was Private Sam Watkins of the First Tennessee.

Watkins recalled that before the bombardment,

June 27th, had started off as another beautiful Georgia summer day. Quote, it seemed that the angel of death stood and looked on with outstretched wings while all the earth was silent,

when all at once a hundred guns from the Federal Line opened on us. With the last episode, we not only looked at the Confederate

dispositions on Cheatham Hill, where the Rebel Line formed a shallow salient, the dead angle,

but we also talked about the two 14th Corps

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