Guerilla Warfare in the Civil War

Lectures in History

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History, Politics, News

4.1 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Brown University professor Megan Kate Nelson teaches a class about guerilla warfare, which is largely characterized by its tactics, including ambushes and surprise raids on unsuspecting troops and towns. She talks about the guerrilla soldiers fighting on both the Union and Confederate sides during the Civil War. These small bands of men on horseback were nimble and difficult to capture, especially Confederate guerrillas who often did not wear uniforms and blended back into the population after an attack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.1	This week, guerrilla warfare in the Civil War.
1:04.3	Brown University professor Megan Kate Nelson talks about the small bands of soldiers used by both the Union and Confederate sides
1:09.6	to wage surprise raids on unsuspecting troops and towns.
1:13.6	Okay, so on April 16th, 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton wrote a letter to General Winfield Scott Hancock
1:24.6	to tell him that the Virginia guerrilla leader John Singleton Mosby likely had
1:30.3	some information about the assassination of President Lincoln. So Stanton warned Hancock. He wanted
1:37.7	him actually to contact Mosby, but he warned him. In holding an interview with Mosby, it may be needless to caution an old soldier like you
1:46.4	to guard against surprise or danger to yourself.
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