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As motorists on Route 28 cross Bull Run Bridge, few may realize that, on the weedy slopes leading to the stream below, a bloody but nearly forgotten footnote to the Civil War took place. On a stretch ...

Irish native Capt. James Haggerty of the 69th New York State Militia Regiment was one of the first Union officers killed in battle 155 years ago today, July 21, at the First Battle of Manassas (also ...

Pessimistic old General Winfield Scott said it would take three years and 300,000 men to put down the rebellion. But Washington socialites thought otherwise. On the morning of July 21, 1861 they ...

The building went back to being a home after the Battle of First Manassas, so historians started looking for places the family may not have cleaned away blood, like the spaces between floor boards.