The Battle of Big Bethel (Virginia): In the first full-fledged land battle of the War of Federal Aggression, Brigadier General John B. Magruder, commanding the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of the Peninsula—outnumbered three-to-one—defeats the Militia of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, commanded by Brigadier General Ebenezer W. Peirce (sic).
NOTE: Nineteen Americans were killed in the battle.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 284-85.
J. Matthew Gallman, senior editor, Civil War Chronicle, (New York: Crown: 2000), 73-74.
Chronology Of The American Civil War
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