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Title: The Bull-Run Rout
Scenes Attending the First Clash of Volunteers in the Civil War

Author: Edward Henry Clement

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Language: English

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THE BULL-RUN ROUT

SCENES ATTENDING
THE
FIRST CLASH OF VOLUNTEERS
IN THE CIVIL WAR

BY
EDWARD HENRY CLEMENT

CAMBRIDGE
JOHN WILSON AND SON
University Press
1909

FROM THE
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FOR MARCH, 1909.

THE BULL-RUN ROUT

A LITTLE paper written years ago by a lately deceased brother of mine[1]
describing the rout of the battle of Bull Run as he saw it with the eyes
of a boy and a boy's love of the marvellous seems to me to possess some
value historically for the intimate, unconscious picturing, along with
it, of the state of the public mind on the eve of the so-called "great
uprising." It seems to illustrate well the truth that the great Civil
War, as a war, was really a surprise,--to the people of the North at
least; that the idea persisting up to the day of the battle of Bull Run
at the back of the mind of everybody was that in some way the war-cloud
would blow over, that the actual shock of contending armies and the
pouring out of blood of citizens in civil war would be prevented or in
some way avoided. The occasion of the trip to Washington, to carry
dainties to a soldier brother, the occasion of the extension of