The summer of 1861 brought the first major battle of the Civil War. Both the Confederacy and the United States had been amassing volunteers during the spring months, and many people believed that the conflict would be over by the end of the year. In fact, Parthenia Antoinette Hague, a young woman from Eufaula, Alabama, remembered that many of the "soldiers, in their new gray uniforms, all aglow with fiery patriotism" feared that "the last booming cannon would have ceased reverberate among the mountains, hills, and valleys" before they could arrive in Virginia. But their fears of missing battle were unfounded.
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Becoming Alabama:
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