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Military Strategy at the Battle of Bull Run « Bull Runnings — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:02:56 +0000

[...] Military Strategy at the Battle of Bull Run 28 07 2010 Donald Stoker, whose new book on strategy in the Civil War was the subject of this post, sent me a link to his summary of military strategy at the battle of Bull Run. Check it out, see what you think. As usual, I can quibble a bit. For an expansion on Lincoln’s motivations for sending McDowell forth, see here. For a look at how – or if - Patterson’s failure foiled the Federal plan for the movement, see here. [...]

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Irvin McDowell in America’s Civil War Magazine « Bull Runnings — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:21:55 +0000

[...] plan, while assuming Patterson’s success, did not depend on it; because, as I explained here, the plan also assumed that all available CSA forces would be forwarded to the Bull Run line, [...]

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