The 1st Battle of Bull Run
What was the Battle of Bull Run?• Started July 16, 1861• first major battle of
the civil war• took place in Virginia,
near Manassas, a Virginia railway junction.
•The name of the battle was named after a nearby stream, by the South.
What happened?
• The Confederate army crushed the Union• Union retreated• Confederate army did not chase them • Thomas Jackson earned the nickname
“Stonewall”.• Battered Union army finally reached
Washington on July 22.• It made the Union army want to win the
war even more.