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The results in the muddy fields reverberated across the North and South

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and the contents of a never-before-seen contemporary scrapbook to explain how the country descended into civil war

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Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (William Marvel - UA) cup The results in the muddyRadical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (Civil War America) by William Marvel Born into a distinguished military family, Fitz John Porter (1822 1901) was educated at West Point and breveted for bravery in the war with Mexico. Already a well respected officer at the outset of the Civil War, as a general in the Union army he became a favorite of George B. McClellan, who chose him to command the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac.