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In July 1861, Union troops marched out from Washington toward Manassas Junction, aiming to break the Confederate line along Bull Run and end the crisis quickly. Confederate forces held the stream’s crossings and waited for the inevitable push. As columns moved through Centreville and along the Warrenton Turnpike, the war’s first major field battle formed along a narrow ribbon of water and a handful of roads....
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Woodworth, S. E. (2011). This great struggle: America’s Civil War. Rowman and Littlefield.
Weigley, R. F. (2000). A great Civil War: A military and political history, 1861 to 1865. Indiana University Press.
McNeese, T. (2009). Civil War battles: The Civil War, a nation divided. Chelsea House.
McPherson, J. M. (1988). Battle cry of freedom: The Civil War era (Oxford history of the United States, Vol. 6). Oxford University Press.
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In July 1861, Union troops marched out from Washington toward Manassas Junction, aiming to break the Confederate line along Bull Run and end the crisis quickly. Confederate forces held the stream’s crossings and waited for the inevitable push. As columns moved through Centreville and along the Warrenton Turnpike, the war’s first major field battle formed along a narrow ribbon of water and a handful of roads....
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0:00 Introduction
📚 Sources:
Woodworth, S. E. (2011). This great struggle: America’s Civil War. Rowman and Littlefield.
Weigley, R. F. (2000). A great Civil War: A military and political history, 1861 to 1865. Indiana University Press.
McNeese, T. (2009). Civil War battles: The Civil War, a nation divided. Chelsea House.
McPherson, J. M. (1988). Battle cry of freedom: The Civil War era (Oxford history of the United States, Vol. 6). Oxford University Press.
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