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The C. S. A. and the Battle of Bull Run: (A Letter to an English Friend.) John Gross Barnard No preview available - 2016 |
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advance arrived artillery attack Austrians battalion battle of Bull Beauregard Blackburn's Ford Bonham's Brescia Brigadier-General caissons Captain cavalry Centreville Colonel Hunter's Colonel Keyes Colonel Sherman column command commenced Confederate corps crossed Bull Run defensive directed division of Hunter enemy engaged Engineer eral field fire force Fort Sumter French Gunnery guns Harper's Ferry Heintzelman's hill horses infantry Johnston left flank Lieutenant Major Manassas McDowell ment miles military moved movement Naval North Northern Nostrand's Publications o'clock officers panic passed Patterson Potomac pro-slavery railroad rally rear rebel rebellion regiments reinforcements reserve retreat Richmond Rickett's battery rifles road rout says Schenck's brigade seceding secession Shenandoah Sherman's brigade slave slavery soldiers soon South South Carolina Southern Stone Bridge Sudley Spring thousand tion treason Tyler's division United States troops victory Virginia volunteers wagons Warrenton turnpike Washington woods wounded York YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Zouaves
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