Ep. 0147: The Sparring of the Amateur Boxer: The Not-So-Civil War Part 9

This episode fills in the gap between Gettysburg/Vicksburg in the summer of 1863 and the beginning of Ulysses Grant & William T. Sherman’s total war campaigns of 1864, including some lesser-known (but still important) campaigns and battles.

Join CJ as he discusses:

• William Rosecrans’ Tullahoma Campaign
• The Battle of Chickamauga
• The siege of Chattanooga
• Grant’s breaking of the siege, including the storming of Lookout Mountain and the miraculous taking of Missionary Ridge
• The resignation of Braxton Bragg (finally)
• The Bristoe Station & Mine Run campaigns in northern Virginia
• Lincoln’s Dec. 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
• “Christmas Bells” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The appoint of Grant as overall Union commander, and Grant’s appointment of Sherman to command the Division of the Mississippi

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