Caroline Janney
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
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One of the misconceptions of the American Civil War is that Gettysburg is a great turning point.
We know now that it was the battle with the most casualties over a course of three days, 50,000 plus casualties.
We know now that it was the last time the Confederates were able to make it into the North.
We know now that the Confederacy paused, but in the summer of 1863, Gettysburg was not seen as a great turning point.
In fact, there would be another year and a half of war after Gettysburg.
Some newspapers in Virginia didn't even see it as a Confederate defeat.
Vicksburg, however, was incredibly important because it was the last stronghold on the Mississippi River.
And once the United States Army could capture Vicksburg, they could open up the entire Mississippi River and they could fulfill a key component of what was called the Anaconda Plan, which was a plan that was proposed by the general-in-chief at the beginning of the war
to essentially draw a line around the Confederate states and constrict them like a snake, Vicksburg had been the last holdout.
And it fell on July 4th.
Gettysburg had been July 1st through 3rd.
Vicksburg is July 4th.
This, if you go back and look at newspapers from the summer of 1863, this was seen as much more important than what had happened at Gettysburg.
They are fighting a two-pronged war.
They are fighting for Union, but more importantly, they're fighting for emancipation.
They're fighting to prove themselves as men.
They're fighting to prove that they deserve citizenship.
Harriet Tubman is not just important on the Underground Railroad and leading enslaved people to freedom before the war, but she is one of the first women to take part in active combat.
She is part of an expedition that goes to the Combee River and helps to free enslaved people in that region.
She's especially remarkable in that case, but she is not the only woman who is out there being part of the war effort.
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