ORDEAL BY FIRE

“Ordeal by Fire” The Civil War and Reconstruction

“Ordeal by Fire” The Civil War and Reconstruction

Appointed to the colonelcy one of the regular Army infantry regiments newly empowered, he led the brigade of volunteers from the first Division, which crossed Bull Run to the 2nd and 3 aid divisions had begun after the attack on the enemy left. Although caught in the path, he already had a low opinion of volunteers-he was a brigadier general in the next month. Short commander of a brigade in Washington, he was then as deputy to Robert Anderson of Kentucky. Soon ...