The stage was set for war, and both sides were eager for a quick and glorious victory. The society widow ... back behind the little river called Bull Run, about halfway between Centreville and ...

At 5:15 p.m. on May 2, 1863, a doomed Confederate officer with striking ... for the steadiness of his men at the first Battle of Bull Run in 1861. He had run several Union armies ragged in the ...

Here he outmanœuvred Patterson and appeared at Bull Run in time to assume control during that battle. He himself admits that he was opposed to following up the Confederate victory with a march on ...

Northerners were so sure of their victory in fact that spectators ... If the North would have been able to crack the Confederate code used at Bull Run, they’d have been better prepared for ...

trying to get to Richmond,” the Confederate capital, Hokanson says. “We have a tendency to say here that [Bull Run] is the first major land battle,” she adds. “It was certainly the first o ...

ordering the bombardment of Fort Sumter and serving as second-in-command during the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run, Beauregard is regarded by many historians as a man of few ...

S.C. He cemented his legend when he led Confederate soldiers to a decisive victory in the first major battle of the Civil War -- the First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of ...