“a cruel, crazy, mad, hopeless panic possesed them… the heat was awful… the men were exausted-their mouths gasped, their lips…
“a cruel, crazy, mad, hopeless panic possesed them… the heat was awful… the men were exausted-their mouths gasped, their lips cracked and blackened with the powder of the cartridges they had bitten off in the battle, their eyes staring in frenzy.”-Representative albert riddle, observing the first battle of the bull runThis excerpt describes _____ at the First Battle of Bull Run.a)terrified observers of the battleb)couragous confederate soldiersc)retreating union soldiersd)civilians fleeing to Washington, D.C.