Miscellany
A Rebuke of Conscience
14:40
On a Sunday in July 1861 the Union army broke at Bull Run, and the explanations traveled faster than the casualty lists. Dr. William Passavant announced the true cause in his Pittsburgh paper: the battle had been fought on the Sabbath. The reply from St. Louis ran one dry sentence — and then, when Passavant accused the editors of misquoting him, they printed his entire document in translation…