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The Civil War was the most important event in American history.

That's because it decided what kind of nation America would be

and whether or not the promise of universal liberty would really be fulfilled.

And what decided the outcome of the Civil War was its battles.

Welcome to the key battles in the Civil War podcast. Hello everyone.

Welcome to this episode on the most important Civil War battles. In the previous episode, James and I discussed the background of the Civil War, the decades of slow boiling conflict, the Cold War between the North and the South, where there were diverging views on where the future of America would go. Would slavery die a slow natural death?

Or would, as Southerner's Hope, have constitutional legal protection so that it could remain in perpetuity in the South?

While that conflict was never resolved, so that brings us to the Civil War, and that brings us to the first

battle. So James, can you set us up with what you deem to be one of the most important battles

of the Civil War? Sure. We're going to talk about the first major battle of the Civil War,

which was the Battle of Bull Run or Manassas, as it was called in the South.

We'll talk about the two names a little bit later.

Later, of course, it's going to be known as first Bull Run and First Manassas for the obvious

reason that there's going to be another one there later, but that's in the future.

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