Southern Historians generally refer to the second battle of Bull Run as the Second Battle of Manassas. Generally, Southern Historians named battles after place names and Union Historians named battles after Rivers or bodies of water. Manassas was a village. Bull Run was a stream.
(First or Second) Manassas .
The first battle of the Civil War was the First Battle of Bull Run aka The First Battle of Manassas at Manassas. The north fully expected a quick blowout but were amazing defeated by the south.
The first major land battle of the Civil War was the First Battle of Bull Run, known to the South as First Manassas, in Virginia.
Mainly because of superior Generals, like Johnston, and Jackson at first Manassas, and Lee at Second Manassas.
It was named that by the North for its proximity to the Bull Run River. In the South it was called the Battle of Manassas for its proximity to Manassas Junction. There were actually two battles in 1861 and 1862; First and Second Bull Run in the North, and First and Second Manassas in the South.
Second Bull Run. The south called it Second Manassas.
Two major battle in the South during the Civil War include the Battle of Chickamauga and the Battle of Stones River.
The North called it the First Battle of Bull Run, and South called it the first Battle of Manassas.
The South won the first major land battle of the Civil War - the First Battle of Bull Run - also known as First Manassas.
The first major battle of the Civil War, won by the South, was fought in Virginia, near Manassas Junction and the River Bull Run, on July 21,1861. The encounter was called Battle of First Manassas by the Confederates and First Bull Run by the Unionists..
Union (The North) forces called the Battle of Manassas the Battle of Bull Run .
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