PREVIEW: #CIVIL WAR: #PARTISANS: Conversation with colleague Patrick K. O'Donnell, author of the new Civil War history, THE UNVANQUISHED, re the friendship between Confederate Cavalry chief J.E.B. Stuart and the legendary and charming John Singleton Mosby
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batcher, conversation with my good friend Patrick K O'Donnell. |
| 0:06.0 | His new book is The Unvanquished. |
| 0:08.5 | This is Irregular Warfare in the Civil War. |
| 0:11.8 | The Untold Story of Lincoln Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, |
| 0:16.0 | and the Shadow War that forged America's Special Operations. |
| 0:20.0 | Patrick here comments on the relationship between the Confederate cavalry commander, that is |
| 0:27.9 | Jeb Stewart, and the Confederate irregular warfare fighter John Singleton Mosby, and how they regarded each |
| 0:36.2 | other and how they worked together. |
| 0:38.6 | Much more of this, Patrick's book tonight and again tomorrow night. |
| 0:44.7 | Irregular warfare, the partisans of the Civil War, West Virginia, |
| 0:50.1 | guerrillas sometimes, soldiers another, betrayal, and then Lincoln's death. All mystery. Patrick O'Donnell commenting on, |
| 1:07.0 | Jeb Stewart and John Singleton Mosby. |
| 1:10.0 | Jeff Stewart is a cavalry, is a Confederate cavalry commander who commands a large portion of the South's cavalry. |
| 1:20.0 | And Mosby is a trusted lieutenant of Jeb Stewart. |
| 1:25.0 | They recognize that he's a lawyer, he's a brilliant man, he's unassuming, doesn't drink, he likes |
| 1:32.2 | the original bean, In fact he drinks only coffee that's |
| 1:35.6 | real. But he is an incredibly smart and brilliant tactician which will |
| 1:41.8 | reign in what we now know is modern or regular warfare. |
| 1:45.0 | Much of it is patterned after what Mosby does in his so-called Confederacy in Prince William in Louden County. |
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