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Podcast: Battles Of The American Civil War
Episode: Blountville | Stirling's Plantation | Baxter Springs
Description: We have three short battles for you this week making it a short episode after last episode's massive Chickamauga battle. On September 20th, 1863, the Union Army looks to clear roads and gaps on their way to Virginia in the battle of Blountville in east Tennessee. At the battle of Stirling's Plantation on September 29th, the Federals and Rebels fight it out in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Finally, Qauntrill and his raiders are at it again as they attack Fort Baxter on October 6th, hoping to take the fort but were repulsed, but not before they massacred 103 Union troops....