Searching for Irvin McDowell: The Civil War’s Forgotten General Section-Gettysburg Maps Including the Tullahoma Operations

Including the Tullahoma Operations

he collected and labeled artifacts from the battle

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assist President Lincoln in funding the Union war effort

Twice during that service

Searching for Irvin McDowell: The Civil War’s Forgotten General Section-Gettysburg Maps Including the Tullahoma Operationsby Frank P. Simione Jnr. and Gene Schmiel Irvin McDowell was a prominent figure during the early months of the Civil War. With so much at stake, he was called upon to lead the Unions largest Eastern Theater army. Pressed by the media and President Abraham Lincoln to move into Virginia and defeat the Confederates gathering there, McDowell led his neophyte army out to the plains of Manassas and was soundly defeated. McDowell went on to hold an