The Battle of First Manassas Junction (Virginia) (a.k.a. First Bull Run): Major General Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard, commanding the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of the Potomac, defeats the compulsory Union Army of Northeastern Virginia, commanded by Brigadier General Irvin McDowell.
NOTE: Over 800 Americans were killed on both sides.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 285.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 166.
American Civil War, 1861
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwar2.htm
First Battle of Bull Run – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run
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