[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 16 (reply #26).

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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Echoes of Glory: Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War By the Editors of Time-Life Books

[BroJoeK]

W.T. Sherman described an incident before the battle:

"About 9 o'clock I was well down to the [Bull Run] River -- with some skirmishers and observed two [Confederate] men on horseback ride along a hill, descend, cross the stream and ride out toward us." One Rebel waved his gun over his head, making himself conspicuous, and loudly shouted: "You D___d abolitionists, come on."

Seems like slavery was on the mind of that Confederate cavalryman that day.

• not the Morrill Tariff
• not bounties for "fishing smacks"
• not "money flows from Europe"
• not "northeastern power brokers"
• not even "states' rights"

Of course, nobody'd yet told that Confederate cavalryman that it wasn't politically correct to call Yankee's "d___d abolitionists" -- it took a few years for everybody to get that memo.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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