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"In the first months of the Civil War, few Americans understood how ugly the war would become, few had any sense of what an actual battlefield would be like. They would get their first important lesson in July 1861, when a great Union army and a major Confederate force clashed near a Virginia stream called Bull Run.". "In April 1861, Confederate artillery blasted Fort Sumter into surrender. Within weeks, the Confederacy established its capital at Richmond. On May 24, Lincoln ordered troops across the Potomac into Virginia, only a few miles from the Confederate military base near the hamlet of Manassas. A great battle was inevitable; whether this would end the war, as many expected, was the only question. On July 21, near a stream called Bull Run, the two forces fought from early morning until after dark in the first great battle of the Civil War. America would never be quite the same.". "Donnybrook is the first major history of Bull Run to detail the battle from its origins through its aftermath. Not since William C. Davis's study of the battle, written decades ago, has a historian approached this linchpin event with such force, insight, and fresh energy.". "The first Battle of Bul

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Author

Detzer, David

Publisher

Mariner Books

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780156031431

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.09 / 5 (62 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14