Article: Donnybrook; the battle of Bull Run, 1861.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Bull Run 195 re-enactors bring Civil ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  July 6, 2004 ;     437 words ... ... Though no Illinois units were represented at the Civil War's first Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, Illinois "soldiers" fought ... sightseers. An oddity of the first Battle of Bull Run, was the number of curious onlookers who drove ...

Article: 1st Bull 'Run' lived up to its name; Civil ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  July 16, 2006 ;     640 words ... ... the first Battle of Bull Run (or Battle of Manassas ... major battle of the Civil War. Fought in 1861 ... army and he chose Bull Run as the place to make ... had anticipated. Bull Run also told Wilmer ... E. Lee ended the Civil War by surrendering to ...

Article: American Civil War: "The Fatal Blunder of the ...
FA Journal;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Artillery Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 1887, Vol. 1,194. Artillery ... major battle of the American Civil War, the Battle of Bull Run (also referred to as Manassas ... their artillery properly, the Civil War very likely could have been ...

Article: First Bull Run, 1861: Sherman's baptism of ...
The Washington Times;  July 25, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Sherman got his first taste of Civil War combat at the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. Sherman, a ... line on the western side of Bull Run, south of present Route 29 ... Southern major had crossed Bull Run in an act of bravado, yelling ...

Article: Trench Warfare With a Modern Twist; Bull Run Area ...
The Washington Post;  March 30, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... along the banks of Bull Run. Deep, grooved ... through the site of a Civil War skirmish. This swath ... the green water of Bull Run to the homeowners ... southern bank of Bull Run behind a town house ... Historic Places, and Civil War buffs know them well ...

Article: The road to second Manassas 1862.(Second Battle of Bull ...
Cobblestone;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...July 27 Confederate general Robert E. Lee, defending Richmond from Union major general George B. McClellan's 110,000-man army, sends Major General A.P. Hill and 13,000 troops to join Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's 12,000 men at Gordonsville. August 6 Union major general John Pope's

Article: The Civil War battle that helped create a ...
Social Education;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...The Battle of Bull Run is routinely cited as the first land battle of the Civil War. That battle between Union ... events of that day. Yet this Civil War battle, a historical event ... South. (2) Prior to the Civil War, the citizens of Philippi ...