. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . It^ i>rr0ub lattb at lull IJuu * ^ the scene and the two armies rested on their arms until themorning. The first days battle is sometimes called the battle ofGroveton, but usually it is considered as the first half ofthe second battle of Bull Run. It was a formidable con-flict in itself. The Union loss was at least forty-five hun-dred men, the Confederate was somewhat larger. Over thegory field lay multitudes of men, the blue and the gray com-mingled, who Mould dream of battlefields no more. Theliving men lay down among the dead
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . It^ i>rr0ub lattb at lull IJuu * ^ the scene and the two armies rested on their arms until themorning. The first days battle is sometimes called the battle ofGroveton, but usually it is considered as the first half ofthe second battle of Bull Run. It was a formidable con-flict in itself. The Union loss was at least forty-five hun-dred men, the Confederate was somewhat larger. Over thegory field lay multitudes of men, the blue and the gray com-mingled, who Mould dream of battlefields no more. Theliving men lay down among the dead in order to snatch alittle rest and strength that they might renew the strife inthe morning. It is a strange fact that I^ce and Pope each believed thatthe other would A\ithdraw his army during the night, and eachwas surprised in the morning to find his opponent still on tlieground, ready, waiting, defiant. It was quite certain that onthis day, August 3()th, there wovdd be a decisive action andthat one of the two armies would l)e victor and the other de-feat
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