Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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But as far as a staging ground for that, Baton Rouge is essential in that sense.
It is, I think, I mean, you know, the campaign to capture Vicksburg still takes another nine months.
I mean, really 12 months after the, nearly 12 months after the Battle of Baton Rouge.
And it's all focused on Port Hudson and Vicksburg.
But the Union can see clearly that this is an essential part of their overall strategy.
Yeah.
Vicksburg falls on the same day that Gettysburg falls.
The profusion of literature about Gettysburg in the Eastern Theater has led many people
I would say, kind of casual Civil War readers and historians to imagine that that's the more important battle.
Finally, a defeat or at least a rebuke of Lee.
At the time, the capture of Vicksburg and the control of the Mississippi had much greater sway.
Lincoln famously says about it, the father of waters flows unvexed to the sea.
That finally, again, we have control of this mighty river that runs through the heart of the continent.
He has cleaved the Confederacy in half.
So all of those resources from the Western states, Arkansas and Louisiana and Texas, can no longer get to the soldiers in the East who need them.
And that changes the logistical landscape enormously for the war.
People at the time saw it, and it's something that listeners today really need to keep in mind
even as we focus on the climactic battles of the Overland Campaign in 1864, that's because the scope of war has shrunk.
There's a whole theater that's basically been taken out of action.
So I just published a book last fall called Fighting with the Past, How 17th Century History Shaped the American Civil War.
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