47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War

History That Doesn't Suck

Prof. Greg Jackson

History, Education

4.7 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

“There is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!”

This is the story of violence on land and sea. Of violence unlike anything America has ever known.

Tens of thousands of Union and Confederate forces clash near Virginia’s Bull Run River and Manassas railroad junction. Naive, young soldiers quickly learn their romantic notions of war are a farce, Thomas Jackson defends “like a stone wall,” and Yankees hear a horrific sound: “the rebel yell.”

Things are calmer on the sea. Lincoln wants a blockade to hem in Confederate ships. The result is one international, diplomatic nightmare (the Trent Affair), and the most devastating attack in US naval history. The carnage and destruction wrought on the US Navy by the CSS Virginia (the Merrimack) won’t be matched or exceeded until 1941.

Lincoln’s despondent. He has setbacks, on the field, turnover from General-in-Chief Winfield Scott to George B. McClellan, and a dying son. It seems nothing can go right. There is one exception though. Welcome back to the story young Ulysses S. Grant.

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1:06.0	July 21, 1861.
1:09.0	Tens of thousands of federal and Confederate soldiers are in the heat of battle just north of north eastern Virginia strategically crucial railroad junction.
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1:20.0	The city is safe and safe.
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1:28.0	Tens of thousands of federal and Confederate soldiers are in the heat of battle just north of north eastern Virginia strategically crucial railroad junction between the orange and Alexander line and that of the menace's gap.
1:39.0	Lacking in skill by having the numbers, the inexperienced Union troops have forced their southern opponents back from Bull Run River in Uphintory Hill.
1:48.0	Confederate General Bernard B is trying desperately to get his men to hold their ground to no avail.
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