In the First Battle of Bull Run approximately 28,000 Union troops faced approximately 33,000 Confederate troops. In US history, this was the largest ever US battle. Later on even larger armies would be engaged.
18,572 Union, and 18,053 Confederates. This includes calvary, infantry, and cannon.
The first Battle of Bull Run took place on July 21, 1861. The Union was defeated and suffered 2,600 casualties.
the union had 28,000 and about 2,900 were killed or wounded
Both Union and Confederate, the first battle of bull run was in the civil war between the Union and Confederates.
Around 55000.
B. Supplying their troops with weapons and ammunition
The Confederates had deployed on Marye's Height about 10,000 men of Early's Division supported by the artillery reserve, totalling about 12,000 men.
Burnside led the Union troops.
In speaking about the First Battle of Bull Run, the Confederates won. The battle was near the railway junction of Manassas. Each army was unprepared for battle and the South could have lost as well. The armies had no real seasoned troops.
The Confederates caught Major General US Grant napping and put on a terrific assault that would have overwhelmed him, had it been continued. Grant's forces outnumbered the attacking Confederates. But Grant's troops rallied the next morning, helped by 20,000 troops under General Buell.
Around 133,000 Union, and 61,000 Confederates.
Meade's Northern troops defeated Lee's Confederates.
B. Supplying their troops with weapons and ammunition
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Confederates had deployed on Marye's Height about 10,000 men of Early's Division supported by the artillery reserve, totalling about 12,000 men.
2,246 Union soldiers died in that battle. The Confederates lost 1,495 soldiers.
Poor communication, green, untrained troops.
The Confederates were confident in their leaders, the Union soldiers less so. After the battle, the Union troops said they had been misused by Hooker.
The Union troops under U.S. Grant, who defeated the Confederates and killed their highly-respected commander, Sidney Johnston. It was the first significant Union victory, and it was the beginning of the end of Confederate domination of the Mississippi valley.
Because it was the Confederates' only hope of a winning battle, before Union troops under D.C. Buell arrived to reinforce U.S. Grant.
General Meade made the Confederates retreat from Gettysburg on October 1, 1863.
This was the first battle of the Civil War. It consisted of a 39 hour shelling of the fort by the Confederates, after which, the Northern troops surrendered. There were no deaths on either side.