In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss Lincoln’s influential 1863 leadership and the Union campaigns that shifted the Civil War’s course, literary and musical birthdays, and an intriguing animal fact.

• 📜 Lincoln’s steady executive role in 1863 and the Union campaigns reshaping the conflict’s course — how presidential leadership and battlefield momentum interacted to change strategy, supply lines, morale, and national memory.
• 🎂 Birthday highlights: Thomas Wolfe (1900) — his expansive, confessional novels that transformed American narrative scale; plus mentions of Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954) and Gwen Stefani (1969).
• 💡 Fact of the day: a donkey’s eye placement lets it see all four of its feet at once — a small anatomical marvel that shapes how we imagine their movement and everyday steadiness.

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