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    The Bull-Run Rout Scenes Attending the First Clash of Volunteers in the Civil War
    The Bull-Run Rout Scenes Attending the First Clash of Volunteers in the Civil War
    The Bull-Run Rout Scenes Attending the First Clash of Volunteers in the Civil War
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    The Bull-Run Rout Scenes Attending the First Clash of Volunteers in the Civil War

    By Edward Henry Clement

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Bull-Run Rout Scenes Attending the First Clash of Volunteers in the Civil War - Edward Henry Clement

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      Title: The Bull-Run Rout

      Scenes Attending the First Clash of Volunteers in the Civil War

      Author: Edward Henry Clement

      Release Date: June 23, 2010 [EBook #32951]

      Language: English

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      THE BULL-RUN ROUT

      SCENES ATTENDING

      THE

      FIRST CLASH OF VOLUNTEERS

      IN THE CIVIL WAR

      BY

      EDWARD HENRY CLEMENT

      CAMBRIDGE

      JOHN WILSON AND SON

      University Press

      1909

      From the

      Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society

      for March, 1909.

      THE BULL-RUN ROUT

      A little paper written years ago by a lately deceased brother of mine[1] describing the rout of the battle of Bull Run as he saw it with the eyes of a boy and a boy's love of the marvellous seems to me to possess some value historically for the intimate, unconscious picturing, along with it, of the state of the public mind on the eve of the so-called great uprising. It seems to illustrate well the truth that the great Civil War, as a war, was really a surprise,—to the people of the North at least; that the idea persisting up to the day of the battle of Bull Run at the back of the mind of everybody was that in some way the war-cloud would blow over, that the actual shock of contending armies and the pouring out of blood of citizens in civil war would be prevented or in some way avoided. The occasion of the trip to Washington, to carry dainties to a soldier brother, the occasion of the extension of the partly sight-seeing journey to the first battle-field of the great war, the commission from the horror-struck authorities at home to find and bring back from Virginia the body of the first Massachusetts soldier to fall,—all prove the naïveté of the popular conceptions at that time of what it was to enter upon war. This Chelsea boy,[2] whose body my brother was bidden by the

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