The Battle of Bull Run
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- How long do you think that it will take us to win?
- In A Field Outside Of Manassas, VirginaJuly 21, 1861
- We will win this battle by tomorrow!
- First Battle of Bull Run
- The "Picnic Battle"
- I can't wait to watch the Battle!
- Soldiers gather from both armies in a field outside of Manasss, VA.The Union Army expected to win quickly.
- Bloody Battle
- Southerners named this the Battle of Manassas, after the closest town. Northerners named it The Battle Of Bull Run, after a stream running through the battlefield.
- The South Wins
- WE WON!!
- Shockingly, civilians followed the Union Army to picnic and watch the battle. They gathered to watch with sandwiches and opera glasses.
- Generals of The Battle Of Bull Run
- The Battle cost 3,000 Union casualties, compared with 1,750 for the Confederates.
- The end result of the battle was a Confederate victory and Federal forces retreated to the defenses of Washington, DC.
- In the first major land battle of the Civil War, a large Union force under General Irvin McDowell is routed by a Confederate army under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard.
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