The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Neiberg) cooking the Second Manassas campaign pitted

the Second Manassas campaign pitted the US Armies of Virginia and the Potomac against the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and its new commander

The Confederacy abandoned common practices in favor of innovative approaches that would help them overcome the significant deficits in materiel and manpower

DAVE WIEGERS

Lincoln closely supervised the victorious war effort

personally and professionally

The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Neiberg) cooking the Second Manassas campaign pittedby Michael S. Neibert When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Americans blamed the Germans, pitied the Belgians, and felt kinship with the Allies, they wanted no part in the carnage. Two years into war President Woodrow Wilson won re election by pledging to keep out of the conflict. Yet by the spring