Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 acres of Virginia countryside and is the site of some of the ...
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Manassas commemorates not one, but two Civil War battles. In July of 1861, around 60,000 Union and Confederate soldiers clashed in what many consider the first major battle of the war. “It was the ...
BEAUREGARD'S report of the battle of Manassas. It is given as follows: Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector-General, Richmond, Virginia: Before entering upon a narration of the general military ...
As the first major land battle of the American Civil War the First Battle of Manassas fought on July 21 1861 shocked a nation expecting a short and easy conflict Thirteen months later Northern and ...