Library of Congress Nobody realized that the battle fought at Bull Run on July 21, 1861, was going to be remembered as the first gory conflict in a long and bloody war. Bull Run, the first land ...

“Mobilizing for War and the Battle of First Manassas/Bull Run.” Military historian Ethan Rafuse provided an overview of the Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. He described military strategies ...

But after the first guns at Fort Sumter ... Pennsylvania Avenue celebrated what they already called “the Battle of Bull Run.” One Union general told the Times of London correspondent William ...

Civil War re-enactors perform a living history reenactment of the First Battle of Bull Run, Saturday, July 23, 2011, in Manassas, Va. Thousands of re-enactors have braved scorching heat to mark ...

HEAD-QUARTERS FIRST MINNESOTA REGIMENT ... my regiment leading the advance of your brigade. On arriving at Bull Run, the battle began to rage with great warmth with the advance column of infantry ...

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It details the formation of the Confederate States of America, the firing on Fort Sumter, and the initial battles, including the First Battle of Bull Run, highlighting the challenges faced by both ...

the battle of bull run.; the seventy-first new-york regiment.interesting statement of edward p. doherty, share full article aug. 6, 1861 ...

The armies that met at the First Battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, as it was called in the North, were made up mostly of units equipped by the states and municipalities of the North and South.

(WHTM) — The Civil War was supposed to be over in ninety days. People on both the Union and Confederate sides thought that the war would be decided in just a single battle. In fact, many troop ...