Can someone briefly explain the first and second battle of manassas.?

Answer 1

First battle of Manassas, also known as First Bull Run, took place just outside Washington DC, on July 21, 1861. (If you are wondering why two names, Union troops named battles after streams and rivers and the like, hence this one was named after the nearby Bull Run Creek, while the Confederates named battles after nearby towns, like Manassas Junction.) This was the first real battle of armies in the Civil War. The Union had 30,000 men led by Gen Irwin McDonnell, and the Confederacy had 24,000 led by Gen PGT Beauregard. Neither army was well trained, but the actions of Stonewall Jackson for the South helped them turn back a Union assault and then counterattack and drive the Union troops from the field, but they were unable to pursue to DC. Not a good battle for the North, and they shed their conceit that the war would be a quick one.

Second Manassas/Second Bull Run, August 28-30 1862 was the culmination of a series of battles between Robert E. Lee and the Union's General John Pope. This three-day battle involved many more troops, but ultimately Pope was crushed, and relieved of his command afterwards by Lincoln. The Confederacy, feeling confident, moved northward, only to be forced back after Anteitam.

Answer 2

First Manassas was fought on 21 July , 1861 at Manassas Junction on Bull Run Creek, hence why there are two names for the battle, in Virgina two days march from Washington in Fairfax County. Ist meeting of the what would become known as the Army of the Potomac, of the North, and what would become known as the Army of Northern Virgina. Generals Irvin McDowell for the Union, P.G.T. Beauregard for the Confeds.

Second Manasas fought August 29-39 1862 same place, same location. Fought between Jackson's Corps and John Porter's Army of Virgina , the size of a large Corps.

Both were confederate victories.

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Answer 3

This was on battle in a series of battles. To me the key to Second Manassas was that in absolute numbers killed the Union lost more men, but as a percentage of available soldiers lost the Confederates were hurt worse percentage wise. In the end it was the growing Union Army that defeated the dwindling Confederate Army no matter how many "victories" the Confederates "won."

Answer 4

I can't give you better answers than the one's above, but, my great,great Grandfather, Charles And Napoleon Tankersley, and the And was one of his names, was in both of them. He was wounded in the 1st battle serving in Cobb's Legion from Georgia, and returned to Atlanta as a genuine war hero. He recovered from his wounds, and returned to service, and was in the 2nd Battle of Manassas/Bull Run. He stayed with the Georgia Infantry thru Chancellorsville, where he was wound seriously, and could no longer serve, and returned to Georgia, again, as a hero. During many of those campaigns, my great-grandfather from Ohio was in the same battles as my rebel Grandfather from Georgia, on opposite sides. Good thing one of them didn't kill the other, or, I wouldn't be here to answer this question.