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First Bull Run
21 Jul 1861 — Washington picnickers watch the Union army rout at Manassas; Thomas Jackson earns the name “Stonewall.” Nearly 900 dead in an afternoon teach both capitals that this will not be a ninety-day war.
This is one scene of Chapter 3 — The Illusions of 1861 in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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