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Battle of Bull Run:

Why didn’t Johnston attack the defenseless union capital?

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he had 2 fears #1 was he thought he would be surrounded on the peninsula and be assaulted and #2 was the power of the unions artillery was very far beyond of the confederates artillery.
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