The imminent battlefield was 57 miles away, and already the first guns had sounded along Bull Run. Beauregard spread his brigades on a nearly ten-mile front behind the winding stream, from near Stone ...
(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 ...