CSPAN2 Book TV October 19, 2014
Time on july 20, 1861 after addressing the Congress Though on the hot morning of july 21, he could stand the suspense no longer. He knew the combined armies of johnston worked with hunting the enemy near the Railroad Junction of manassas. He commandeered a special train and truck northward. Arriving at manassas in the midafternoon, he wrote towards the south. He was dismayed by what he first encountered strugglers and wounded men with tales of defeat from the, discarded weapons, damaged equipment in the battlefield. Davis tried to rally the stragglers. I am president davis and he shouted. Foll...