Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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Right.
Or to use the guns that he has, those huge, heavy artillery guns.
And he turns his ships.
That takes about 10 minutes and begins an artillery barrage.
It only lasts maybe 10 or 15 minutes, but it does enormous damage to Baton Rouge.
The old state capitol is damaged.
The cathedral, the citizens downtown, of course, fly into a panic.
One person is sort of killed in the stampede of civilians rushing away from downtown.
And it gives us an insight into the mismatch between the threat posed by guerrillas, which is quite precise and singular, and the very blunt tools that the Union Navy has to counteract it.
And this is the very beginning of a guerrilla conflict that, as your listeners know, will spread, goes all over the Confederacy, but in some ways takes very sharp shape down here along the Mississippi River.
Both sides see the proliferation of guerrillas in 1862.
and these very clumsy, heavy union efforts to suppress them.
And that, of course, inflames civilian animosity and all of the things that we know with insurgencies and counterinsurgencies.
True.
And I mean, it's important to note a couple of things.
One is that Williams's troops are very new.
They are untrained.
It's a kind of assortment of some Midwestern troops and I think a Vermont regiment.
And they come down with very little experience and they're coming into a very foreign place.
As we've just said, there is a kind of active and growing guerrilla war which unsettles them.
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