Bull Run—or Manassas, as Southerners call it, preferring to name Civil War battles for towns instead of watercourses—was a fierce battle, but not huge compared with those to come later. Counts vary, ...

The imminent battlefield was 57 miles away, and already the first guns had sounded along Bull Run. Beauregard spread his brigades on a nearly ten-mile front behind the winding stream, from near Stone ...

The postwar period saw a sustained effort by both the North and South to commemorate and honor the troops. Despite Lincoln’s words at Gettysburg that nothing would hallow the ground more than ...

Includes also description of the Panorama of the Battle of Bull Run by Theophile Poilpot.