. Battles of the nineteenth century . ARABI SURRENDERING TO GENERAL DRUKY LOWE. 20:. IT must have seemed to the people of theUnited States as if Sunday was to be forthem a day of fate. Bull Run, theinitial battle of the Civil War, wasfought on a Sunday, and Shiloh, the battlewhich may be considered the second clearpoint of the great struggle, began on aSunday. But here coincidences between thebattles did not end. A General Johnston(Albert Sidney at Shiloh and Joseph Egglestonat Bull Run) and General Beauregard com-manded the Southern forces on both occasions ;moreover, each battle may be said
. Battles of the nineteenth century . ARABI SURRENDERING TO GENERAL DRUKY LOWE. 20:. IT must have seemed to the people of theUnited States as if Sunday was to be forthem a day of fate. Bull Run, theinitial battle of the Civil War, wasfought on a Sunday, and Shiloh, the battlewhich may be considered the second clearpoint of the great struggle, began on aSunday. But here coincidences between thebattles did not end. A General Johnston(Albert Sidney at Shiloh and Joseph Egglestonat Bull Run) and General Beauregard com-manded the Southern forces on both occasions ;moreover, each battle may be said to have hadtwo clearly defined parts, and in each firstappearances, as is so often the case in thingscivic or military, proved deceptive. At noonon the Sunday of Bull Run the Federalshad carried all before them ; and at noon onthe Sunday of Shiloh the South was in asfavourable a position. Yet, in the end, theNorth suffered defeat at Bull Run, as did theSouth at Shiloh. The fortunes of war, ever fickle, went sadlyagainst the Confederates at Shiloh. Skilfullyplanned and boldly exec
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