直到最近，一些内战历史学家才开始把统一主义者和他们的经历作为调查的中心，而不是南部邦联。

Only recently have some Civil War historians begun to make Unionists and their experiences, rather than the Confederate state, the center of inquiry.

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北方人本来期望联邦军会在马纳萨斯战役中获胜，他们认为如果联邦军在美国内战初期能够取得一次重大胜利，那么南方的邦联军就会因此而失败。

Northerners had expected to win the battle of Bull Run. They believed the Confederacy would fall if the Union won a big military victory early in the war.

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而北部邦联军正在向Fredericksburg逼近，那里很快上千人将英勇地，有时悲惨地死去，躺在一个石墙旁边。

And the men in Blue were moving towards Fredericksburg, where thousands would soon lie by a stone wall in heroic and sometimes miserable death.

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