Don Wildman

It kind of just sets the table for the bigger battles to come in other places, doesn't it?

Right.

It will further isolate these deeper south places, Louisiana, Texas, all these, you know, from all the resources that are happening up north as Lee is pursuing his own northern strategy up there.

What this says to me is that the grand plan, this anaconda plan, they call it, is going to work.

Winfield Scott, God bless him, has the idea.

And this stranglehold is now even more of a strangle because we've got this problem of the Mississippi River down in its southernmost point taken care of.

Yeah, well, it's that divine moment when both Gettysburg and Vicksburg were won on the same week, and things really shift in that regard.

We will talk about Vicksburg soon, and when we do, this will have been a very important conversation, so I hope those listeners will keep that in mind when we get around to that in short order.

And when we do, I hope we'll be talking to you, Professor Aaron Sheehan-Dean, who has joined us so many times on this podcast and so grateful for it.

His scholarship covers a range of Civil War subjects, books like Why the Confederates Fought, which we've discussed at length on another episode, The Calculus of Violence.

Great title.

What's new on your horizon, Aaron?

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