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An interview with historian David Detzer sheds light on the Battle of Bull Run, the first battle of the US Civil War, fought on July 21, 1861.
William Howard Russell, the London Times war correspondent, went to the Battle of Bull Run in a rented buggy with a bottle of tea, a flask of Bordeaux and a container of brandy. Sen. Henry Wilson ...
It's time to mark another 150th anniversary of an important Civil War event. The First Battle of Bull Run was fought on July 21st, 1861. WKAR's Scott Pohl discussed the battle with Roger ...
Long before we did this at football games, it was done on the battlefield during the American Civil War - and it goes back ...
The Civil War’s First Civilian Casualty Was an Elderly Widow From Virginia Union gunfire killed 85-year-old Judith Carter Henry on July 21, 1861—the day of the First Battle of Bull Run ...
Of the Battle of Bull Run on July 21, ... After the Civil War, she filed a claim to ask for reparations from the U.S. government for property taken from her during the war.
The Second Battle of Bull Run. Share full article. Aug. 31, 1862. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 31, 1862, Page 4 Buy Reprints.
Bull Run: The first major land battle of the Civil War July 18, 2011 In July 1861, time was running out for the 90-day volunteers — men who answered President Lincoln’s call for troops to put ...