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The Advantages of Defeat
A scholar argues that the Union debacle at Bull Run was not such a disaster.
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The Advantages of Defeat
"Our defeat at Bull Run was in no true sense a disaster; we not only deserved it, but needed it. It should give us new confidence in our cause, in our strength, in our final success." Soon after the start of the Civil War, Charles Eliot Norton urged the Union Army to toughen its resolve.
