Bull Run—or Manassas, as Southerners call it, preferring to name Civil War battles for towns instead of watercourses—was a fierce battle, but not huge compared with those to come later. Counts vary, ...
Mathew Brady and his legacy -- The first Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) -- Port Royal and Fort Pulaski -- The Federal Navy -- The Battle of the Ironclads -- The Peninsular campaign -- The second Battle ...
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 ...