The First Battle of Manassas; Strategic Movements of the Conflicting Troops -- How the Fight Was Won -- Origin of the "Stars and Bars" and the "Rebel Yell." Share full article.

Manassas has tried to put its history on the map, starting 50 years ago when people gathered to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First Battle. Because of poor planning, though, the event ...

I reached Manassas about noon on the 20th, preceded by the Seventh and Eighth Georgia Regiments, and by JACKSON's brigade, consisting of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Twenty-seventh, and Thirty-third ...

Members of the Manassas City Council like the idea of commemorating the 150th anniversary of the First Battle of Manassas so much that they’re ready to give up $100,000 to make it happen in 2011 ...

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 ...