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Thread: 160th Anniversary of the First Battle of Manassas

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    The Henry House. The Union commander set up his HQ at the top of the hill behind the house.

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    Color guard at Jackson's line.
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    General Bee: rally, rally. There stands Jackson like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!

    His unit was in full route. As soon as he said the above, a Union cannonball hit him.
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    The Hill House. The only civilian to die at the battle was the old lady who lived there.

    Union troops set up a line of cannon there so the South shot the hell out of the house trying to kill the artillery pieces. A Union officer tried to evacuate the old woman but she refused to leave. I also think Union snipers were operating from the second floor windows.
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    Stack arms.

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    caisson and cannon.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    I went to Yorktown's 225th. That was fun. My friend was in the 3rd NJ at the time. The reenacted the storming of redoubts 9 and 10 the afternoon before and that was the best part, IMO. I should check out a Civil War reenactment. Curiously, I never have.

    Saw the post about the absent flags. Lame.
    I took the kids to Yorktown and after watching the movie in the visitor's center. We walkout out to the battlefield and I tried to get them to charge a redoubt. They turned around and ran back to their mother. LOL Apparently they were not yet ready for battle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    I took the kids to Yorktown and after watching the movie in the visitor's center. We walkout out to the battlefield and I tried to get them to charge a redoubt. They turned around and ran back to their mother. LOL Apparently they were not yet ready for battle.
    Must have been disappointing....

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    Today is the actual anniversary.

    THIS DAY IN HISTORY


    JULY 21
    In the first major land battle of the Civil War, a large Union force under General Irvin McDowell is routed by a Confederate army under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard.Three months after the Civil War erupted at Fort Sumter, Union military command still believed that the Confederacy could be crushed quickly and with little loss of life. In July, this overconfidence led to a premature offensive into northern Virginia by General McDowell. Searching out the Confederate forces, McDowell led 34,000 troops—mostly inexperienced and poorly trained militiamen—toward the railroad junction of Manassas, located just 30 miles from Washington, D.C. Alerted to the Union advance, General Beauregard massed some 20,000 troops there and was soon joined by General Joseph Johnston, who brought some 9,000 more troops by railroad.
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