On this day in 1861, Union and Confederate troops clashed outside of Manassas, Virginia in the first major engagement of the ...

Starting at around 2:30 a.m., a 35,000-strong Union force attacked Confederate troops numbering around 32,000.

This day in history was also the birth of the well-known nickname for Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson.

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 ...

On this day in 1861, a hot summer Sunday, Union and Confederate troops clashed near Manassas, Va., in the First Battle of Bull Run.

Bull Run, the first land battle of the Civil War, was fought at a time when many Americans believed the conflict would be short and relatively bloodless, writes the Senate Historical Office.

Military historian Ethan Rafuse provided an overview of the Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. He described military strategies employed by the North and South and examined how this battle changed ...

Later this month — July 21, to be exact — we will mark the 160th anniversary of the first major land battle of the Civil War at Bull Run. It was on the fields around Manassas, Va., only 25 ...

Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861 David Detzer. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $28 (490pp) ISBN 978-0-15-100889-6 ...

The Louisville Courier says: "Gen. G.T. BEAUREGARD, of the Confederate Army, has made public his official report of the battle of Bull Run, the first fight, on the 18th of July.

Southern Illinois was greatly impacted by the Civil War that raged from 1861-65. This is a chapter in a series of reports on what happened 150 years ago at this time. Civil War Timeline will ...