093 The Civil War: West Virginia, Missouri, and the Battle of Bull Run

In this episode we finish our discussion of the border states
with a brief overview of what occurred in what would become West
Virginia and then move to the struggle for Missouri. From the
west, we head east to cover the first major clash in the eastern
theater - the Battle of Bull Run. After a hard fought battle with
enthusiastic but green troops, the Confederate field army bested
the Union's. Bull Run shattered expectations of a quick and
relatively bloodless war. It was the beginning of a long and
bloody struggle.


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