On this day in 1861, a hot summer Sunday, Union and Confederate troops clashed near Manassas, Va., in the First Battle of Bull Run. It was the opening major land engagement of the Civil War and, at ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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The 150th anniversary of the Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) is upon us. Fought July 21, 1861, this opening engagement of the Civil War pitted two ill-trained armies struggling to gain a strategic ...