Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.

The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres

the forgotten stories that changed our world.

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

Everyone, welcome to our series on the 10 Most Important Battles of the Civil War.

We've completed the 10 Most Important Battles of the Civil War.

In the previous episode, we looked at the conclusion of the Overland Campaign and the formal terms

of surrender of the Confederacy Appomattox Courthouse.

We are by no means ready to wrap up this series.

Much like the theatrical and extended version of Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King,

there is going to be a very long epilogue here because there's so much to cover with

the Civil War.

This episode isn't so much an epilogue, but it's looking at an issue that we didn't really

tie into the rest of the series, and that is the naval war that is occurring in the background

of the Civil War.

This is nothing new with warfare of a naval battle being fought at the same time as infantry

battle or a land battle.

You can look at the Napoleonic Wars.

We forgot we forgot drinking in this series with when I mentioned Napoleon, when James

mentions movies.

Is there another thing you drink too?

We said something, but I can't remember what it was.

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