It was Christmas Day, 1864 when one of the largest armadas ever assembled by mankind began to deluge Fort Fisher, one of the largest forts in the world, with tens of thousands of shells. The Confederates refused to surrender and fought to the last man. Their fort guarded the last remaining port of the Confederacy, an essential lifeline of the fledgling nation. If Fort Fisher fell, so too would fall the Confederate States of America and the men on the ground knew it, felt it, and their actions demonstrated they knew it. Death rained from the sky. The earthen walls absorbed the explosive shock. Humans were split apart, their entrails ticker-taping from their split-open torsos. Terror played concertos on human visages. And you should have seen the animals – butchered by shot and shell. Fort Fisher was a milestone in the human development of killing and this episode will provide the exhaustive details, an examination of mass-produced pain. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.

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Music Source:

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