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Date Posted: 16:16:03 11/13/02 Wed
Author: j
Subject: Ch14 - The Opening Clashes

I. The Opening Clashes
A. First Battle of Bull Run
i. Union –
a. officer in charge – General Irvin McDowell
b. stationed just outside Washington w/ 30,000 troops
ii Confederates –
a. Officer in charge – P.G.T. Beauregard
b. stationed 30 miles away from the Union at Manassas(w/ a smaller army than the Union’s)
- reinforcements were sent the day before, evening out the army sizes
iii. july 21, won by the confederates
a. the victory dispelled the thoughts that the war would be quick
B. other battles
i. for the union in Missouri, Nathaniel Lyon lost and died in the battle but not before severly wouding the Confederates
ii. after moving in toward Virginia, George B. McLellan had “liberated” the anit-secessionists and created a new state, West Virginia
a. it was an important symbolic victory for the Union despite its limited value

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