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  Encyclopedia: First Battle of Bull Run   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The First Battle of Bull Run, referred to as the First Battle of Manassas in the South, (July 21, 1861), was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
Bull Run stream originates from a spring in the Bull Run Mountains in Loudoun County and flows south to the Occoquan River.
The Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Second Battle of Manassas, was fought August 30, 1862, as the major battle in the Northern Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War.
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 MSN Encarta - Battle of Bull Run
At Bull Run the Union troops encountered the Confederate forces coming from their base at Manassas, about 4.8 km (about 3 mi) south of the stream.
The battle, demonstrating as it did the effectiveness of the Confederate army, changed the status of the conflict from a rebellion to a civil war.
The Second Battle of Bull Run was fought on two days, August 29 and 30, 1862, near Bull Run.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569041/Battle_of_Bull_Run.html   (431 words)

  
 First Battle of Bull Run -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The First Battle of Bull Run, referred to as the First Battle of Manassas in the South, (July 21, 1861), was the first major land battle of the (Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865) American Civil War.
However, a brigade of (A state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War) Virginia soldiers commanded by Brig.
Rally behind the Virginians!" The Confederates did just that, and the battle resulted in a humiliating rout of (The state of being joined or united or linked) Union forces and a disorderly retreat, bringing the battle to a halt.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fi/first_battle_of_bull_run.htm   (608 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Second Battle of Bull Run [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Second Battle of Manassas, known as the Second Battle of Bull Run in the North, was a battle during the American Civil War.
Manuevering following the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 9 brought the armies to positions across the Rappahannock River.
Turning his column eastward, he resumed his march in the morning and crossed Bull Run Mountain at Thoroughfare Gap and reached Gainesville in the late afternoon, where cavalry forces under Major General J.E.B. Stuart joined the column.
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