As motorists on Route 28 cross Bull Run Bridge, few may realize that, on the weedy slopes leading to the stream below, a bloody but nearly forgotten footnote to the Civil War took place. On a stretch ...

The building went back to being a home after the Battle of First Manassas, so historians started looking for places the family may not have cleaned away blood, like the spaces between floor boards.

Today marks your last chance to see an enactment of the First Battle of Manassas on this 140th anniversary of the first major engagement of the War Between the States. Advertised as "the largest Civil ...

Manassas National Battlefield Park The first major battle of the Civil War occurred on July 21, 1861, near Bull Run and the important railroad junction at Manassas. It is hard to believe but some ...

MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — It was Manassas where the greatest army ever assembled in North America first gave battle 150 years ago. It was Manassas where a Confederate colonel earned one of the most ...

Pessimistic old General Winfield Scott said it would take three years and 300,000 men to put down the rebellion. But Washington socialites thought otherwise. On the morning of July 21, 1861 they ...