As to the points referred to in the closing paragraph, it is not easy to see either the ... three miles from the field of battle -- the cavalry crossing Cub Run nearly a mile above the bridge.

In July 1861, time was running out for the 90-day volunteers — men who answered President Lincoln’s call for troops to put down the South’s rebellion. They had seen the unfinished dome of ...

A map which is herewith ... which crosses what became the field of battle through the valley of a small water-course, a tributary of Bull Run. Shortly after the leading regiment of the First ...

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 ...

This 1861 cartoon of the Bull Run battlefield includes a portrayal of watching House members and "ladies as spectators." Library of Congress Nobody realized that the battle fought at Bull Run on ...

in the First Battle of Bull Run. It was the opening major land engagement ... many Northerners were shocked by the unexpected Union defeat — when an easy victory had been widely envisioned.

Back in Washington, Southern sympathizers crowding the barrooms along Pennsylvania Avenue celebrated what they already called “the Battle of Bull Run.” One Union general told the Times of ...

User-Created Clip by PMcGorry November 11, 2013 2011-07-24T11:02:09-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/10f/20110724110412003_hd.jpgGuest discusses the Battle at ...

Mr. Detzer talked about his book Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861, published by Harcourt. The book tells the story of the opening of the Civil… read more Mr. Detzer talked about his book ...

One hundred fifty years ago, the Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Manassas, marked the first large-scale land battle of the Civil War. In celebration of the sesquicentennial ...

to mark the 140th anniversary of the first battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the Civil War. From the battlefield, he looks back on what happened there and what it meant to a divided ...