B. T. Thornton. The home was also close to where President William Taft attended the Civil War 50th anniversary known as the ...
Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 acres of Virginia countryside and is the site of some of the ...
This is just a really poor choice of a location.” The larger Manassas landscape functions as vital recreation space and wildlife habitat, Campi said, and it preserves Civil War history as well as the ...
One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... At the first major land battle of the war on July 16, 1861 in Virginia at Manassas (Bull Run), two unproven green ...
By war's end he had risen to captain, a veteran of many a hard fight -- First Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg, Knoxville, the Overland Campaign, Petersburg – to end the war at Appomattox. In the 1880s ...