Episode 298 - The Insane Corruption of the Union Army During the US Civil War

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Lions Led By Donkeys

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Union soldiers may have marched off to fight for the right side of the war but that didn't mean that every contractor and General in the north wasn't going to try to steal something from the military along the way. BUY JOE'S BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-War-Military-Sci-Fi-Undying-ebook/dp/B0CQ6BH6BD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3IDZ3WJXQ4CQJ&keywords=joe+kassabian&qid=1707120531&sprefix=%2Caps%2C236&sr=8-1 SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys SOURCES: https://www.americanheritage.com/lincolns-corrupt-war-department Micheal Thomas Smith. The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North. Journal of the Civil War Era. Vol 3, no. 1. Pp. 137-139 Tim Koenig. The Days of Shoddy: Wost Manufacturers of the Civil War. Civil War Quarterly. Vol. 3. no. 2.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Joe here from the Lines Ed by Dunkeys podcast, but I guess you probably already knew that.
0:06.0	What if there was a war raging for a million years, but it was kept a secret?
0:10.3	It's a question that Sarkis never considered.
0:13.0	He's born as an upper middle class man living in prime city during the so-called millennia of peace.
0:20.0	As far as he knew, or as far as anybody knew, humanity has no army, no weapons, and no wars.
0:27.8	The people of Earth had been expanding into the stars as long as anyone remembered, free of conflict while the techno king and his royal
0:35.6	Cabal enriched themselves in the backs of their labor. It was as it always had been.
0:41.8	Then Sarkis died. Unbeknownst to him, an app he used every single day of his life
0:47.6	hijacks his consciousness and uploads it into a synthetic engine of war known as a sleeve. Along with countless others he's been
0:55.2	conscripted into the undying legion charged with fighting a secret unending war in the name of
1:01.3	humanity.
1:02.6	Their mind stolen, uploaded into war machines.
1:06.1	They fight a secret war to preserve humanity.
1:09.1	My new book, The Invisible War,
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