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The episode opens with a lengthy quote from this 1948 novel about a Southern boy imagining Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. The hosts explicitly identify it as 'William Faulkner, Intruders in the Dust, 1948' and note it contains 'probably his single most famous passage.'

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Referenced when discussing Sherman's march through Georgia - 'because of Gone with the Wind, it's incredibly famous, the blaze of destruction launched by General Sherman through Georgia and into the Carolinas.' This refers to the famous novel (and subsequent film) that shaped popular understanding of the Civil War's destruction in the South.