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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.

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