Witnesses turned into refugees as the first major Civil War battle turned into a rout. The shocking reality of Bull Run ...

On this day in 1861, a hot summer Sunday, Union and Confederate troops clashed near Manassas, Va., in the First Battle of Bull Run. It was the opening major land engagement of the Civil War and, at ...

The two bronze guns had been given to Army Capt. A. Van Horn Ellis, of Company I, and with a battle brewing outside Manassas, Va., he and his men had to get them from the Washington Navy Yard to the ...

The Civil War's first major battle was not especially bloody or decisive, but this fascinating study makes it an apt microcosm of the conflict. Historian Detzer (Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston ...

(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 ...

When Samu Qureshi sits down in the middle of his 4,100-square-foot “museum” in Bethesda, the longtime Washington football fan is surrounded by his life’s work.