This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

I'm talking to Patrick K. O'Donnell, the author of a new book, highly recommended, especially

for those who know the Civil War.

But if you don't, you will learn it from the saddle level.

The unvankished, the untold story of Lincoln's special forces,

the manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the Shadow War that forged America's special operations.

It is now the summer of 60. Let me see. Get the date right. No, it's February, February to March of 1863.

64.

Thank you.

This is a raid that is important to note because it becomes a predicate for other decisions made by the Confederacy for the balance of the war.

A young man named Dalgren and a general named Kilpatrick put together a plan approved by

Stanton, the Secretary of War.

It's a raid on Richmond.

And the raid, while at first not successful, becomes an argument throughout the Confederacy and throughout

the Union for the balance of the war. Patrick, who is Dahlgren that he's chosen and who is

Kilpatrick and what is the plan? The plan is to use Kilpatrick as sort of a decoy force that distracts the south.

Well, Dahlgren, who's a son of a union general, who's missing a leg from his war service,

he has a false leg, is to ride along the know, along the backside of Richmond and then attack and

strike the city and burn it to the ground and kill its leaders.

And this is considered controversial for obvious reasons.

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