(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 ...

Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 acres of Virginia countryside and is the site of some of the bloodiest fighting in the American Civil War. 🏨Hotels and Vacation Rentals 📍Tours ...

This Thursday, July 21, marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of First Manassas (popularly known as First Bull Run), the first large-scale engagement of the Civil War. For many in the North, the ...

The postwar period saw a sustained effort by both the North and South to commemorate and honor the troops. Despite Lincoln’s words at Gettysburg that nothing would hallow the ground more than ...