The imminent battlefield was 57 miles away, and already the first guns had sounded along Bull Run. Beauregard spread his brigades on a nearly ten-mile front behind the winding stream, from near ...

Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 ... The first major battle of the Civil War occurred on July 21, 1861 ...

Some of the trees uprooted by the tornado were decades old, said Rob Malley, board member of the Bushy Run Battlefield Historical Society. A handful of trees downed along the entrance to the park ...