Bull Run—or Manassas, as Southerners call it, preferring to name Civil War battles for towns instead of watercourses—was a fierce battle, but not huge compared with those to come later. Counts vary, ...
Two Civil War cannons are usually displayed at the Rhode Island State House. The "Gettysburg Gun" has a cannonball still ...
(WDBJ) - On this day in 1861, Union and Confederate troops clashed outside of Manassas, Virginia in the first major engagement of the Civil War. It began when Union General Irvin McDowell hoped to ...
Includes also description of the Panorama of the Battle of Bull Run by Theophile Poilpot.
The postwar period saw a sustained effort by both the North and South to commemorate and honor the troops. Despite Lincoln’s words at Gettysburg that nothing would hallow the ground more than ...
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