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Discusses the U.S. Civil War in the Eastern Theater from the engagement at Fort Sumter in April, 1861 through Bull Run in July, 1861.Tags
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William C. Davis is a retired history professor who taught at Virginia Tech. An acclaimed expert on the Civil War, he has served on a number of advisory boards, including the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission; the American Battlefield Trust; the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia; the National Park Service; and show more the Lincoln Prize and Pulitzer Prize nominating juries. show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- First Blood: Fort Sumter to Bull Run
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- E. Porter Alexander; Robert Anderson; John Andrew; Turner Ashby; William W. Averell; Sullivan Ballou (show all 144); James G. Barker; Francis C. Barlow; William F. Barry; Francis S. Bartow; P. G. T. Beauregard; Barnard E. Bee; James Gordon Bennett; William W. Blackford; Milledge L. Bonham; Mathew Brady; George W. Brown; Francis E. Brownell; James Buchanan; Ambrose E. Burnside; Benjamin F. Butler; Edward K. Butler; Simon Cameron; Salmon P. Chase; Lucius E. Chittenden; Cassius Marcellus Clay; Gaston Coppens; Michael Corcoran; Arthur Cummings; Andrew G. Curtin; Jefferson Davis; Stephen A. Douglas; Ebenezer Dumont; Abram Duryée; Frederic D'Utassy; Bettie Duval; Jubal A. Early; Elmer E. Ellsworth; Arnold Elzey; Nathan Evans; Richard S. Ewell; Nathan Bedford Forrest; William Franklin; James B. Fry; W. M. Gardner; Robert Selden Garnett; Thomas Goldsby; John T. Greble; Horace Greeley; Rose O'Neal Greenhow; Charles Griffin; Henry W. Halleck; Joseph Hamblin; Wade Hampton; William J. Hardee; David Hart; Samuel P. Heintzelmann; Judith Henry; Thomas H. Hicks; Daniel Harvey Hill; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Theophilus H. Holmes; James Hope; Edward H. House; McHenry Howard; Oliver O. Howard; A. P. Hubbard; Alexander Hunter; David Hunter; Benjamin Huske; John D. Imboden; James W. Jackson; Stonewall Jackson; Joseph E. Johnston; Charles C. Jones; David R. Jones; Edward F. Jones; J. B. Jones; John B. Jones; George P. Kane; Benjamin Kelley; Joseph B. Kershaw; Erasmus D. Keyes; Luther Ladd; Robert E. Lee; Marshall Lefferts; John Letcher; Francis Lewis; Abraham Lincoln; John A. Logan; Thomas M. Logan; James Longstreet; Charles S. McCauley; George Brinton McClellan; Irvin McDowell; Wilmer McLean; John Bankhead Magruder; Dennis Hart Mahan; Joseph K. F. Mansfield; Dixon S. Miles; Claude E. Minié; William Morgan; Thomas Morris; William B. Ott; William Overton; Robert P. Parrott; Robert Patterson; John Pegram; William N. Pendleton; Wendell Phillips; Ebenezer Pierce; Francis H. Pierpont; C. R. M. Pohlé; Andrew Porter; George A. Porterfield; R. C. W. Radford; George Wythe Randolph; Thomas Rhett; Israel Richardson; James B. Ricketts; William S. Rosecrans; Edmund Ruffin; William Howard Russell; Charles Sandford; Robert C. Schenck; Thomas A. Scott; Winfield Scott; John Sheffee; William Tecumseh Sherman; John Slocum; Edmund Kirby Smith; William Smith; J. E. B. Stuart; Charles Sumner; George Sykes; George H. Terrett; George H. Thomas; Frederick Townsend; Daniel Tyler; Leroy Pope Walker; Alfred Waud; George D. Wells; Roberdeau Wheat; Orlando B. Willcox
- Important places
- Alabama, USA; Alexandria, Virginia, USA; Annapolis, Maryland, USA; Annapolis Junction, Maryland, USA; Appomattox Court House, Virginia, USA; Arkansas, USA (show all 110); Arlington, Virginia, USA; Augusta, Georgia, USA; Back River, Virginia, USA; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Beverly, West Virginia, USA; Blackburn's Ford, Virginia, USA; Blue Ridge Mountains, USA; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Buckhannon, West Virginia, USA; Bull Run River, Virginia, USA; Camp Anderson, Washington, D.C., USA; Camp Baxter, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, USA; Corrick's Ford, West Virginia, USA (as Carrick's Ford, Virginia, USA); Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA; Centreville, Virginia, USA; Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA; Cheat River, Pennsylvania-West Virginia, USA; Chesapeake Bay, USA; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Cub Run, Virginia, USA; Elizabeth City County, Virginia, USA; Fairfax, Virginia, USA; Fairfax Court House, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; Florida, USA (troops from); Fort Corcoran, Arlington, Virginia, USA; Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Fort Monroe, Virginia, USA; Fort Morris, West Virginia, USA; Fort Pickens, Santa Rosa Island, Florida, USA; Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA; Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA; France; Frederick, Maryland, USA; Front Royal, Virginia, USA; Georgia, USA; Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA; Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia, USA; Hampton, Virginia, USA; Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA; Henry House Hill, Virginia, USA; Indiana, USA; James River, Virginia, USA; Kentucky, USA; Laurel Mountain, West Virginia, USA; Little Bethel, Virginia, USA; Long Bridge, Potomac River, USA; Louisiana, USA (troops from); McLean's Ford, Virginia, USA; Maine, USA (troops from); Manassas, Virginia, USA; Manassas Junction, Virginia, USA; Maryland, USA; Massachusetts, USA; Matthews Hill, Virginia, USA; Michigan, USA (troops from); Mississippi, USA (troops from); Mississippi River, USA (strategic value of); Missouri, USA (troops from); Mitchell's Ford, Virginia, USA; Montgomery, Alabama, USA; Morgantown, West Virginia, USA; New Hampshire, USA; New Jersey, USA; Newport News, Virginia, USA; New York, USA; New York, New York, USA; North Carolina, USA; Ohio, USA; Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA; Pennsylvania, USA; Pensacola, Florida, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; Philippi, West Virginia, USA; Piedmont Station, Virginia, USA; Potomac River; Providence, Rhode Island, USA; Rappahannock River, Virginia, USA; Relay House, Maryland, USA; Rhode Island, USA; Richmond, Virginia, USA; Rich Mountain, West Virginia, USA; Santa Rosa Island, Florida, USA; Savannah, Georgia, USA; Shenandoah Valley, USA; South Carolina, USA; Stone Bridge, Virginia, USA; Sudley Church, Virginia, USA; Sudley Ford, Virginia, USA; Tennessee, USA; Utica, New York, USA; Virginia, USA; Warrenton Turnpike, Virginia, USA; Washington, D.C., USA; West Virginia, USA; Wheeling, West Virginia, USA; Winchester, Virginia, USA; Wisconsin, USA (troops from); York County, Virginia, USA; York Peninsula, Virginia, USA; York River, Virginia, USA; Young's Branch, Virginia, USA
- Important events
- American Civil War (1861 | 1865); Battle of Big Bethel (1861-06-10); First Battle of Bull Run (1861-07-21)
- First words
- Journalist William Howard Russell, touring the American South for The Times of London, chanced to be in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on April 15, 1861, just after word arrived by telegraph that Fort Sumter had surrendere... (show all)d to Confederate troops.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Now a new determination to win moved Federals and Confederates to write home the same pledge: 'I shall see the thing played out or die in the attempt.'
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- Languages
- English
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- ISBNs
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