While Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton was certainly not one of the Civil War's "great" commanders, he's often misunderstood. Morgan Gates, licensed battlefield guide at Vicksburg National Military Park, joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast with a closer look at a man who's too often too quickly dismissed.

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