They called it “the great skedaddle.” Union troops who had taken to the field brimming with confidence staggered back to the nation’s capital in shocked defeat after the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. Walt Whitman described the soldiers “with this coating of sweat and rain…returning to Washington baffled, humiliated, panic-struck. Occasionally, a …
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