I've always wanted to visit a Civil War battlefield after seeing road signs for them on several earlier trips to the East Coast. Several of the battles occurred within just a couple hours of one ...

The building went back to being a home after the Battle of First Manassas, so historians started looking for places the family may not have cleaned away blood, like the spaces between floor boards.

Today marks your last chance to see an enactment of the First Battle of Manassas on this 140th anniversary of the first major engagement of the War Between the States. Advertised as "the largest Civil ...

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Pessimistic old General Winfield Scott said it would take three years and 300,000 men to put down the rebellion. But Washington socialites thought otherwise. On the morning of July 21, 1861 they ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On July 21, 1861, the Battle of First Manassas (also called First Bull Run) clashed in Virginia. Starting at around 2:30 a.m., a 35,000-strong Union force attacked Confederate ...