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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the first conflict. (search)
cation for any length of time — a singular circumstance which was to exercise a powerful and abiding influence on the war. We have shown in advance how the combatants learnt by degrees to take the greatest possible advantage of these ways of communication. It will be seen a little later how dearly that experience cost them. After this necessary digression, we resume our narrative at the moment when the conflict is about to commence in earnest. Chapter 2: Bull Run. ON the 4th of July, 1861, the anniversary of the foundation of the United States, an extra session of the new Congress which had been elected a few months before was convened by Mr. Lincoln, and assembled in the Capitol at Washington. Never had the representatives of the nation met under such grave circumstances. Four months had elapsed since Mr. Lincoln had taken the constitutional oath in that same edifice, and the sad forebodings which at that time alarmed all true patriots had been realized. The insurgen