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this is John Bachelor conversation with my colleague Patrick K O'Donnell.

He is the author of the new book The Unvanquished, which is the story of Special Forces

during the Civil War. In this scene he sets up the Battle of Cedar

Creek where the Confederates have overwhelmed the exposed flank of the Union Army in the Shenandoah Valley. One man will rescue the Union from this

defeat named Phil Sheridan, the commander of the Shenandoah Valley and will become legendary in his own time and still the three

Grant Sherman and Sheridan. Sheridan was an unusual man, a little man, a diminutive man on a big black horse who took

risk that very few generals took and survived, riding into the midst of gunfire to rally his troops. He will come

later in the day, but Patrick sets up the overwhelming Confederate success early

in the day on the 19th of October, what Patrick writes up for Fox News as the first

October surprise. A defeat here in the Shenandoah Valley, a core destroyed, would

have been a severe blow to Lincoln's re-election chances.

McClellan was the opponent for the Democratic Party, former commander-in-chief of the Army early in the war, a man who wanted to negotiate

with the Confederates, call us fire, stay in place.

Sheridan would have none of it and neither would Grant nor Sherman.

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