THE UNVANQUISHED

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Jack Carr

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The Jack Carr Book Club April 2025 selection is THE UNVANQUISHED by bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell. THE UNVANQUISHED pulls back the curtain on a little-known shadow war that raged alongside the Civil War’s better-known battles. At its center: Lincoln’s special forces, the Jessie Scouts—Union soldiers who disguised themselves in Confederate uniforms to carry out daring raids, intelligence gathering, and high-risk missions behind enemy lines. Through vivid storytelling and never-before-published firsthand accounts, O’Donnell shines a light on the Scouts' deadly cat-and-mouse game with Mosby’s Rangers, uncovering espionage operations, plots to kidnap Abraham Lincoln, and a postwar proxy fight in Mexico. Patrick K. O’Donnell is a combat historian, public speaker, and the bestselling author of 13 critically acclaimed books spanning from the American Revolution to Iraq. He is a leading authority on special operations and irregular warfare, having embedded with troops in Fallujah and advised on projects like BAND OF BROTHERS and MEDAL OF HONOR. His research blends archival discovery with thousands of oral history interviews, bringing lost stories back to life with intensity and precision. FOLLOW PATRICK Facebook - @patrickkodonnell X - @combathistorian Website - https://patrickkodonnell.com/index.html FOLLOW JACK Instagram - @JackCarrUSA X - @JackCarrUSA Facebook - @JackCarr YouTube - @JackCarrUSA SPONSORS CRY HAVOC – A Tom Reece Thriller https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/cry-havoc/ Bravo Company Manufacturing - BCM Stock MOD3: https://bravocompanyusa.com/bcm-stock-mod-3-black/ and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA THE SIGs of Jack Carr P365 Collection: P365XL with Red Dot Optic, P365, P365X-Macro, P365 Custom with True Precision, and P365 Legion. Visit https://www.sigsauer.com/ and on Instagram @sigsauerinc Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here https://jackcarr.co/gear

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by
0:04.0	Cry Havoc, from New York Times number one best-selling author, Jack Carr.
0:09.0	Cry Havoc, a Tomry's thriller. Order Now.
0:19.0	The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it.
0:23.6	Giddiesburg, and Teetam, Shiloh, among others.
0:26.6	However, as best-selling author Patrick K. O'Donnell reveals in the Unvanquished,
0:31.6	a vital shadow war raged amid and away from the major battlefields,
0:35.6	that was in many ways equally consequential
0:38.3	to the conflict's outcome. All right. Let's kick it off. I uh the book cover behind you right there and of course
1:12.4	we're here to talk today about the um vanquished um amazing i also have you can see it in these
1:18.2	other cameras here i don't know if you can see it right there but uh have four seals right
1:22.5	behind me on the shelf right there oh wow yeah i loved it one of these days days, I'd love to talk to you about that or the Brenner assignment.
1:30.0	That'd be really fun.
1:30.7	Yeah.
1:31.1	Let's just kick this thing off and dive in.
1:35.6	But I love, I mean, love the book.
1:38.0	It reads like a Civil War travel guide.
1:41.6	You should almost make an addendum, I think, to like for people that want to
1:44.7	travel, because you can certainly do it from reading this. Yeah, I mentioned that in one of the notes.
1:49.8	You could just take those maps and you can go to all these places. And that's so cool,
1:54.2	as you can walk through history when so much of it is right here in plain sight. And most people
2:00.1	don't even have any idea yeah i know it's absolutely
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