from reading these NY Times articles regularly, its perfectly reasonable for the DC elites at that time to imagine that the Rebels would be soundly defeated at Manassas in a few weeks.
PGR88: "from the NYT..." "...its perfectly reasonable for the DC elites at that time to imagine that the Rebels would be soundly defeated at Manassas..."
Nobody then understood how poorly Union forces would be lead.
9 posted on 07/17/2021 3:59:53 AM PDT by BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective...)