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After the guns of Manassas fell silent, the opposing armies grappled for position wondering what would come next. Popular history has us believe that daily briefings reported something along the lines of All quiet along the Potomac. Reality was altogether different. In fact, the fall and early winter of 1861 was a hotbed of activity that culminated in the December combat at Dranesville. The Union victorysorely needed after the string of defeats at Bull Run, Wilson's Creek, and Ball's Bluffwas small when measured against what was to come; it also helped shape the bloody years to follow.Ryan Quint's The Battle of Dranesville: Early War in Northern Virginia, December 1861 is the first full history of that narrow but critically important slice of the war. No one knew what was coming, but for the first time in a long while civilians (sympathetic to both sides) were thrown into a spreading civil war of their own as neighbor turned on neighbor. In time, this style of warfare, both on the home

The Battle of Dranesville

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      Publisher Savas Beatie
      Published 1/15/2024
      ISBN-13 9781611216936
      978-1611216936
      ISBN-10 1611216931
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      Book Synopsis
      After the guns of Manassas fell silent, the opposing armies grappled for position wondering what would come next. Popular history has us believe that daily briefings reported something along the lines of All quiet along the Potomac. Reality was altogether different. In fact, the fall and early winter of 1861 was a hotbed of activity that culminated in the December combat at Dranesville. The Union victorysorely needed after the string of defeats at Bull Run, Wilson's Creek, and Ball's Bluffwas small when measured against what was to come; it also helped shape the bloody years to follow.Ryan Quint's The Battle of Dranesville: Early War in Northern Virginia, December 1861 is the first full history of that narrow but critically important slice of the war. No one knew what was coming, but for the first time in a long while civilians (sympathetic to both sides) were thrown into a spreading civil war of their own as neighbor turned on neighbor. In time, this style of warfare, both on the home

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