When Ted Cruz's ancestors where fighting on the wrong side of the Spanish American war or visiting Canada, New Yorkers were already very bloodied and experienced from the civil war about fourscore years before. It is worth recollecting the bloody experience that is briefly recounted in this article about the Zouaves with their bright red uniforms. There are more books on the topic of the Wilderness campaign and Manassas. One must ask; where was Ted Cruz on 9-11?
http://www.people.com/article/ted-cruz-new-york-values-campaigns-nyc
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/secondmanassas/second-manassas-history-articles/second-battle-of-bull-run.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
The 10th and 11th New York volunteers (National Guard) were a disciplined lot that March in-line like the British of the Revolutionary war and were scythed like wheat. Then with their fellows like dead and wounded in a ditch before them with the Confederates continuing to decimate their ranks, those in back went out before to rescue the living; and the battle continued into the thickets of the wilderness campaign beyond the open field of slaughter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_New_York_Infantry
http://www.people.com/article/ted-cruz-new-york-values-campaigns-nyc
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/secondmanassas/second-manassas-history-articles/second-battle-of-bull-run.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
The 10th and 11th New York volunteers (National Guard) were a disciplined lot that March in-line like the British of the Revolutionary war and were scythed like wheat. Then with their fellows like dead and wounded in a ditch before them with the Confederates continuing to decimate their ranks, those in back went out before to rescue the living; and the battle continued into the thickets of the wilderness campaign beyond the open field of slaughter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_New_York_Infantry
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