The episode comes to a climax with the disastrous Union defeat at Manassas, Virginia, where both sides learn it is to be a very long war.e ...

When D.C. area residents picture Manassas, an hour outside the District in northern Virginia, they might think of the national park that marks the site of two pivotal Civil War battles ...

See more › To place the Battle of Second Bull Run (also called the Battle of Second Manassas) in context, I reached out to Gary Gallagher, emeritus director of the University of Virginia’s John L. Nau ...

Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 acres of Virginia countryside and is the site of some of the ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... At the first major land battle of the war on July 16, 1861 in Virginia at Manassas (Bull Run), two unproven green ...

By war's end he had risen to captain, a veteran of many a hard fight -- First Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg, Knoxville, the Overland Campaign, Petersburg – to end the war at Appomattox. In the 1880s ...