... . This event not only affected the United States, it affected all members of the free world. There I was at what reporters are calling, "Ground Zero". But I did not feel as if that moniker was appropriate to the situation. "Ground Zero" is a term that belongs to a previous era - an era where governments fought governments. The era we live in now has ushered in ... United States is not fighting a war against an established government, but is trying to fight against an illegitimate government. In this kind of war "Ground Zero" can be anywhere. At that specific moment in history, September ...

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... were respectively comanded by the professional J.E. Johnston and the eccentric and uneven P.G.T. Beauregard. The goal of these armies was to defend Virgina and give battle to the union army under Irvin McDowell. It was popularly belived that one battle would decide the war, and although unprepared, McDowell was forced to attack. His army apporoched Beauregard beliving that Johnston was ... Shiloh was now called the army of Tennesee and lead by Braxton Bragg, a harsh disciplinaran with a knack for attarcting enemies. Bragg went to Chattanooga to merge with a small army under E.K. Smith. ...

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