The First Battle Of Bull Run During The Civil War

The first Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of the Civil War. Even though the first shots fired took place at Fort Sumter. The battle took place just 30 miles from Washington, D.C. The First Battle of Bull Run took place in Virginia on July twenty first, eighteen sixty one. When thirty-five thousand Federals led by General McDowell, marched to strike twenty-thousand Confederates that were led by General Johnston. The Federals had attacked the Confederates along a river known as Bull Run. By four o'clock each troop had an equal amount of men, when the battle was almost over the Confederates managed to break through the Union line which caused the Federals to retreat. This battle had then proved to the Union and President Lincoln
The enlistees Lincoln had called upon were promised a ninety-day enlistment. Their ninety-day enlistment was quickly coming to an end and they were not ready to fight. General Irvin McDowell proposed that he would march his army to Railroad Junction at Manassas. The Union troops then went to strike the confederate force of twenty thousand men. Almost two months after the Confederates opened fire on Fort Sumter the first battle of Bull Run took place. The northern people were eager for the union to advance towards Richmond before their planned meeting on July twentieth. The Union troops had planned the attack on the Confederate troops to begin when they camped near Manassas Junction in Virginia along a river known as Bull Run. President Abraham Lincoln ordered Brigadier General Irvin McDowell to hit quickly and decisively at the enemy and hopefully open the way to Richmond, and hopefully bringing the war to a quick end. Though a confederate spy had told the Confederates what the Union had planned, which then allowed southerners to bring in
The civil war had introduced many new styles of fighting and new weapons and the first battle of Bull Run is when it was started to become noticeable. The outcome of the battle had sent the northerners who had expected a quick victory reeling, and it had given the southerners a false sense of hope that they could pull off a quick victory. Accusations were spewed on the confederate side between Johnston, Beauregard and President Jefferson Davis about who was to blame for the failure of going after the ‘enemy’ and crush them after the battle. On the Union side, Lincoln removed McDowell from command and placed George B. McClellan in command of the Union. He had to retrain and reorganize the Union Troops. George B. McClellan, reorganized Union troops to defend Washington and turning them into a fighting force. It was then known as the Army of the