Aaron Sheehan-Dean

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924 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 24 Aug

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American History Hit · What Made America? Victory in the Civil War · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

But lesser known only in name.

And if you live in the United States today, you've probably heard of the Sherman Antitrust Acts, which John Sherman authors.

He's the chief.

He's the kind of key figure in the debt consolidation after the Civil War and the return to specie payments and all of the economic fights of the postwar era.

John Sherman is at the center of those.

William Tecumseh Sherman leads the U.S.

Army in the Plains Indian Wars era.

So looking through them and their fascinating relationship, they're very close as brothers and they communicate all the time as a way of understanding what it is that the Civil War changes and doesn't change.

William Tecumseh Sherman is much more conservative than John Sherman, who was an early Republican, but I think the two of them will provide a useful lens into thinking about what that post-war world looks like.

American History Hit · Battle of Baton Rouge: Civil War on the Mississippi · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

Well, I would actually start it in the spring, which is when the Union launches its invasion up the Mississippi River.

They had already launched an invasion down, mounting the Navy in Cairo, Illinois, and coming down, they reach Memphis by June of 62.

But this is a more formidable effort coming out of the Gulf of Mexico.

They capture New Orleans in June.

April of 1862.

And it's important to remember, as you pointed out, although people are looking to the east, New Orleans is the most populous city in the south.

It's the wealthiest city in the south.

And strategically, it's the most important as the mouth of the Mississippi River.

So the capture of New Orleans is tremendously good news for northern audiences, as you know, sort of starved in that early spring for good news.

And then the effort is to push that effort upriver with the goal of connecting with the Union forces coming downriver.

Well, that's the initially that's the pejorative name given to it by critics.

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