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SYKES, took their position in line of battle upon a hill ... no braver man trod that turf at Manassas than Gen. MCDOWELL. Major SYKES' Battalion of eight companies, five of Third Infantry ...

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 ...