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This did happen at the First Battle of Bull Run, which was the first major battle of the Civil War. Public belief was that the civil war was not much more than a kind of theatrical petty dispute over slavery happening yet again, because that's what the public was accustomed to. There had been a whole whole lot of powderkeg moments leading up to the civil war that didn't seem to start a huge war, like Bleeding Kansas, the caning of Sumner, the Boston riots.
Everyday people had no reason to believe the declaration of the confederacy would be anything different. They thought this battle would be another in a long line of goofy displays where maybe a dozen people get killed, then everyone goes home and the issue of slavery is further kicked down the road.
They had no idea it was actually gonna get serious and be a war lasting 5 years and killing 700,000 people. Those picnickers were largely well off Washington DC folk who saw the politics of the city as a grand spectacle. Then they watched a bunch of teenagers get obliterated by cannon fire, then went home as quickly as they could. Also death to America, of course.
This did happen at the First Battle of Bull Run, which was the first major battle of the Civil War. Public belief was that the civil war was not much more than a kind of theatrical petty dispute over slavery happening yet again, because that's what the public was accustomed to. There had been a whole whole lot of powderkeg moments leading up to the civil war that didn't seem to start a huge war, like Bleeding Kansas, the caning of Sumner, the Boston riots.
Everyday people had no reason to believe the declaration of the confederacy would be anything different. They thought this battle would be another in a long line of goofy displays where maybe a dozen people get killed, then everyone goes home and the issue of slavery is further kicked down the road.
They had no idea it was actually gonna get serious and be a war lasting 5 years and killing 700,000 people. Those picnickers were largely well off Washington DC folk who saw the politics of the city as a grand spectacle. Then they watched a bunch of teenagers get obliterated by cannon fire, then went home as quickly as they could. Also death to America, of course.
To the modern US those are rookie numbers
The total population was like 10% of what it is now.
Hey now, we've 3 years left to go, don't you doubt uncle sam