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Updated: May 15, 2025

Then the stream of men retreating, mixed with clogging masses of panic-struck civilians, became a torrent. Bull Run was only a special-constable affair on a gigantic scale. The losses were comparatively small 3553 killed and wounded on both sides put together: not ten per cent of the less than forty thousand who actually fought. Moreover, the side that won the battle lost the war.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray