
49: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns
History That Doesn't Suck
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History That Doesn't Suck is a bi-weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard-hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. In May 1862, President Lincoln found an axe and held it out by the tip of its handle with his arm fully extended and only using his thumb and index finger. General Egbert Veal tells us that as they draw near, he saw the lights on various vessels in the U.S. fleet "glimmering like stars"
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