The imminent battlefield was 57 miles away, and already the first guns had sounded along Bull Run. Beauregard spread his brigades on a nearly ten-mile front behind the winding stream, from near Stone ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1861, Union and Confederate troops clashed outside of Manassas, Virginia in the first major engagement of the Civil War. It began when Union General Irvin McDowell hoped to ...

The 150th anniversary of the Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) is upon us. Fought July 21, 1861, this opening engagement of the Civil War pitted two ill-trained armies struggling to gain a strategic ...

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