AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN
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Brandy Station
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Culpepper
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Cedar Mountain
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Brandy Station
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gen. Nathaniel Banks’s Second Corps of Pope’s army tangled at Cedar Mountain with the Federals gaining an early advantage. A Confederate counterattack led by Hill on the Union right repulsed the Federals and won the day.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Battle of Chancellorsville and Jackson’s Death Lee and Jackson’s most famous victory took place near a crossroads at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia in May 1863.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Battle of Cedar Mountain On the blazing hot afternoon of August 9, 1862 a few miles south of Culpeper, Virginia, Confederate Major General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson led his troops into battle against Union Major General Nathaniel Banks’ corps of the Army of Virginia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Known in the north as the Battle of Bull Run and in the South as the Battle of Manassas, this battle, fought on July 21 1861 in Virginia was the first major battle of the Civil War. It was a Confederate victory.