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"We Shall Meet Again": The First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), July 18-21, 1861
Contributor(s): McDonald, Joanna M. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0195139380     ISBN-13: 9780195139389
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $25.64  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2001
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military - United States
Dewey: 973.731
LCCN: 99088846
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.70 lbs) 248 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - Virginia
- Topical - Civil War
Features: Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
The First Battle of Manassas claimed the lives of approximately 878 soldiers and wounded another 2,489. With a battlefield stretching nearly five miles, 15,000 Union and 14,000 Confederate soldiers clashed for four fateful days, many of them young and terrified and receiving their first taste
of a long and bitter war. Their courage, military skill, and brute strength were tested, leading some brigades and many individuals to receive reputations that followed them into history.
Now, for the first time, this extraordinary work brings the Battle of Bull Run to life by featuring over two hundred photographs of the individual soldiers and forty-five highly detailed maps. Written by a noted military historian, it provides all the necessary background information to
understand the minutiae of the military action, yet it also personalizes the horrors of those few destructive days. Through poignant, often disturbing, excerpts from diaries and letters, this book offers readers a rare glimpse at the tragedy of war. Moreover, it portrays with realism and compassion
the significance of the first battle of the bloodiest war in American history.
 
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