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platforms. I hope you will join me today on the American Revolution podcast. Podcast. Hey everyone. Welcome to episode 524 of our Civil War podcast. I'm Rich, and Tracy won't be with us for this show.

She's been brutally busy with work lately and had to work yesterday. And so in order to give her some

semblance of time off this weekend, the boss here at Civil War

podcast headquarters decided to relieve her of co-host duties today, which I think was a wise

decision. Anyway, as you guys will recall, with the last show, we started to look at the Federal's attack on the dead angle, that salient in the Confederate line on Cheatham Hill.

We said that two Union brigades from Jefferson C. Davis's 14th Corps Division were making the assault, the brigades commanded by

Dan McCook, Jr., and John Mitchell. And with the last show, we looked at the attack made by

McCook's brigade, and so, as promised, with this show, we'll look at Mitchell's attack on the dead angle on June 27, 1864.

In June 1864, at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Colonel John Grant Mitchell was just 25 years old.

Born in Ohio, Mitchell graduated from Kenyon College two years before the firing on Fort Sumter and then practiced law. He served as a captain in

the third Ohio before becoming colonel of the 113th, Ohio in the summer of 1862.

Mitchell led a brigade in George Thomas' heroic defense of Snodgrass Hill at Chickamauga,

but he saw no action in the fighting at Chattanooga.

Like McCook's brigade, Mitchell's command had seen much campaigning, but comparatively little

combat so far in the Atlanta campaign.

Like McCook's men, Mitchell's troops were awakened early on the morning of the 27th and

told to leave behind everything except their haversacks,

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