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What is up endless Thread homies? Hope you're doing alright and sliding into this holiday

weekend. It is Memorial Day weekend in 2023 and to celebrate that fact, we have a mystery

involving this civil war. It's an episode from our archives and it's called Angels

Glow. I hope you like it. We'll be back with you next week. Take a listen.

All sorts of legends start on the battlefield. Stories of fighting prowess, of cunning, of

heroics. But it's rare that a legend from the battlefield comes from what happened in

the battles aftermath. This legend comes from the aftermath of a battle in the Civil War,

the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, April of 1862. Yeah, this is one of these great stories

of the Civil War that have kind of passed down through folklore. Shiloh didn't quite

fit the Civil War battle stereotype. Not according to the experts, like historian Jake

Win. Now you think about the Eastern Theater of the Civil War. If you think about Gettysburg

or Antietam, many of the major battles in the Eastern Theater of the Conflict and the

vicinity of Washington and Richmond are fought on farmland and opened ground. That in

the, in many cases in the Western Theater is not going to be the case. Many of those

battles are going to be fought in, in woods. They're going to be fought in dense thickets.

They're going to be fought in swamps. And Shiloh is going to be one of those cases.

This is about a year into the war. So far most of the fighting has been on a smaller scale.

But Shiloh is different. Each side in the conflict has amassed huge armies to take control

of the so-called Western Theater of the War. The Union Army is more than 60,000 soldiers

commanded by Ulysses S. Grant. The Confederate Army is 40,000 under Albert Sidney Johnson.

The United States Army's goal, along with the US Navy, is to try to take control of the Mississippi

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