62: The War in Tennessee: Chickamauga and Chattanooga

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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“Gloom and unspoken despondency hang like a pall everywhere.” This is the story of personalities. Union General William “Old Rosy” Rosecrans takes on Confederate General Braxton Bragg out in Tennessee. Their clash at the battle of Chickamauga is among the deadliest of the whole war. The aftermath is anything but straightforward. Short-tempered as ever, Braxton Bragg is clashing with his generals, particularly Nathan Bedford Forest and James “Old Pete” Longstreet. CSA President Jefferson Davis even pays them a visit in the field to try and keep the peace! Meanwhile, US President Abraham Lincoln and War Secretary Edwin “Mars” Stanton aren’t seeing eye to eye on what to do in the Volunteer State as Ulysses S. Grant is inheriting command at the besieged city of Chattanooga. Can he turn things around? Or will Confederate infighting win the day for him at the last major battle of 1863? We’ll find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.5	Welcome to History that doesn't suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story.
0:44.5	It's the morning of September 21st, 1863, and John Hay wakes up to find President Abraham Lincoln
0:50.8	sitting right next to him on his bed. No shocker there. Just like Lincoln's other secretary,
0:57.6	John Nicolay. John Hay knows he's on call for the President 24-7.
1:03.1	I mean, there's a reason the two of them share a bedroom just across the hall from Lincoln's
1:07.5	second story office here in the White House. But as the 20-something secretary becomes fully alert,
1:13.9	he can tell something's wrong. Well, Rose Kranz has been whipped, as I feared. I have feared it for
1:23.0	several days. I believe I feel trouble in the air before it comes.
1:28.3	The old Illinois Rail splitter opines. And to be clear, this is serious. The union has been enjoying
1:35.0	a real winning streak. Back in July, George Mead bested Robert E. Leigh at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
1:41.2	while Ulysses S. Grant cut the confederacy in half by bringing the Mississippi River under
1:45.5	full union control with his victory at Fixberg. If William, Old Rosie, Rose Kranz and his army of
1:51.9	the Comberlin could have driven the rebels from Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee, well,
1:56.8	then the path to Georgia would have been open, putting the CSA on its heels. But that's not what
2:02.1	happened. Instead, Old Rosie got whipped out by the Tennessee Georgia border at one of the bloodiest,
2:08.0	deadliest engagements of the whole war. The Battle of Chikamaga. But maybe there's still a chance
2:13.8	to put things right. Living up to his nickname as the God of War, Mars, war secretary Edwin Stanton
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