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Podcast: History Unplugged Podcast
Episode: When Does A Scorched-Earth Policy Work? A Look at the Civil War's Final Year
Description: Ulysses S. Grant arrives to take command of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later. Over 180,000 black soldiers in the Union army. And most of all, William Tecumseh Sherman launches his scorched-earth March to the Sea. Other events include the rise of Clara Barton; the election of 1864 (which Lincoln nearly lost); the wild and violent guerrilla war in Missouri; and the dramatic final events of the war, including the surrender at Appomattox and the murder of Abraham Lincoln.Today I'm talking with S.C. Gwynne, author of Hymns...