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and delivered a surprisingly brief speech

delicate ears

With his imposing frame of 6’3”

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a full-scale attack by US General Mead’s army would be disastrous

Victory Rode the Rails dog and delivered a surprisingly briefIt was like a grand holiday. Throughout the North and South in the summer of 1861, Americas young men gleefully pulled on new uniforms, shouldered rie muskets and cheerfully left for war. They would whip the Rebels in 90 days, boasted Northern recruits. One Southerner could lick ten Yankees, claimed Southern boys. Never again would Americans go to war with such an unrealistic, romantic notion. Some knew better. Brigadier General Thomas J. Jackson, an