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.