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 ...

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 ...

Jackson joined the Confederate Army and became a colonel for the Virginia militia. He earned his nickname of "Stonewall" in the Battle of First Manassas, also known as the Battle of Bull Run.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the mid-2oth century, college campuses have been a site of disputes over displays of the Confederate battle flag ... The Harvard Crimson, a student-run daily newspaper, urged “censure, ...