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The Great Rebellion: Important News from Washington – 2-3
Gen. Rosecrans’ Division – 3-4
The Repulse at Manassas: Mr. Thurlow Weed Tells Who is Responsible for the Disaster – 4
The Battle at Bull Run: Official Report of the National Medical Director – 4-5
The War in America: The Letters of the London Times’ Special Correspondent *– 5-7
Editorial: The Movements of the Rebels – 7
The Battle of Bull Run: Stedman’s celebrated Letter reprinted from the World (Adv.) – 4-6

*The print quality is bad in the latter part of this article, so here is a link to the NYT archive=> https://www.nytimes.com/1861/07/31/archives/the-war-in-america-the-letters-of-the-london-times-special.html?searchResultPosition=1

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Unsurprisingly I had never heard of Rufus King. Today’s NYT informs me that he had just been named ambassador to the Papal States when Lincoln named him a general.

King was apparently a scion of the elite, the son of the president of Columbia, and the grandson of someone who was at the constitutional convention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_King_(general)). He had some military service in the Corps of Engineers, but before the Civil War had never seen combat, In the war he only saw it once, and not for long because of an epileptic seizure. (One of his sons at some point did win the MOH.)

By my understanding todays military leadership are all career military men, so I was surpassed that they would just pluck this person from civilian life and make him a general.