67: Ending 1864: The Battles of the Crater, Mobile Bay, Centralia, and Franklin
from History That Doesn't Suck
by Prof. Greg Jackson
Published: Mon Jun 22 2020
Show Notes
“Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”
This is the story of the Civil War in late-1864. Battles of significance are happening all across the country, and many of them are quite odd or unique: Pennsylvania miners are secretly digging under Confederates to blow them up from below; Admiral David Farragut is fighting in the torpedo-filled waters of Alabama’s Gulf Coast; Bushwacker “Bloody Bill” Anderson is fighting the war as a brutal gun-slinger; and one-legged Confederate General John Bell Hood is making a Hail Mary play and taking Tennessee. It’s a quick paced tour around the country as we inch toward the final culmination of the Civil War.
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