CEASELESS VIOLENCE AND BRUTALITY: 1/8: The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and theShadow War That Forged America’s Special Operations Hardcover – by Patrick K. O'Donnell (Author)
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🗓️ 30 December 2024
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https://www.amazon.com/Unvanquished-Lincolns-Special-Americas-Operations/dp/080216286X
At the heart of this groundbreaking narrative is the epic story of Lincoln’s special forces, the Jessie Scouts, told in its entirety for the first time. In a contest fought between irregular units, the Scouts hunted John Singleton Mosby’s Confederate Rangers from the middle of 1863 up to war’s end at Appomattox. With both sides employing pioneering tradecraft, they engaged in dozens of raids and spy missions, often perilously wearing the other’s uniform, risking penalty of death if captured. Clashing violently on horseback, theunconventional units attacked critical supply lines, often capturing or killing high-value targets. North and South deployed special operations that could have changed the war’s direction in 1864, and crucially during the Appomattox Campaign, Jessie Scouts led the Union Army to a final victory. They later engaged in a history-altering proxy war against France in Mexico, earning seven Medals of Honor; many Scouts mysteriously disappeared during that conflict, taking their stories to their graves.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:12.1 | It is the summer of 1862, Captain John Charles Carpenter, a man who is known to have many faces and guises. |
| 0:22.6 | He is going to introduce us to a concept that seems very 21st century, and yet this is the |
| 0:30.5 | Civil War at the opening, and it begins the story of the unvanquished, the untold story of Lincoln's special forces, |
| 0:40.3 | the manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the shadow war that forged America's special operations. |
| 0:47.4 | I welcome the author, Patrick K. O'Donnell, my good friend, to introduce us to Captain Carpenter, who is not trustworthy. |
| 0:57.5 | And yet that is the nature of this business. |
| 1:00.5 | These are very brave men who are also at the same time capable of betrayal. |
| 1:06.3 | That makes the challenge of serving with them and using them in combat to be especially dangerous |
| 1:13.6 | and why so many of the commanding voices of the Civil War didn't trust it. |
| 1:20.6 | Patrick, congratulations and good evening to you. |
| 1:24.6 | Introduces to Captain Charles Carpenter and what is Jesse Scouts? Good evening. |
| 1:30.8 | Good evening, John. This is, the Jesse Scouts were previously an untold story until the |
| 1:37.8 | unvanquished. And their origins begin in 1861 in the battleground of Missouri, where it was brother against brother, |
| 1:46.6 | neighbor against neighbor. It was a true insurgency in the Civil War. And John C. Fremont, |
| 1:52.9 | the first Republican candidate for president in 1856, is in command of a army group at this point. |
| 2:01.5 | And he introduces scouting or scouts to his group. |
| 2:06.5 | He was known as the Pathfinder or the explorer prior to the Civil War. |
| 2:10.7 | He explores California. |
| 2:13.4 | He employs scouts there, men of the West, trappers, hunters, expert men with guns, |
| 2:21.3 | and he does it again under his command, and he brings together a group of scouts that had been |
| 2:27.8 | trailblazers in the West. |
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