From the First passage in William C.
So optimistic were the people in Washington that a crowd of civilians came from the city with picnic hampers to witness the crushing defeat of the upstart "rebels." The following day, however, the mood would shatter in a Battle that confounded the expectations of both.
Davis\' book about "the twilight of America\'s innocence: to the last, the reader is carried through what many in the 1860s believed would be the only Major conflict between North and South.
From the First passage in William C