The Importance Of The Battle Of Bull Run

It was not only the first major battle of the Union and Confederate Armies, but it was also the Union’s first loss. The battle took place on 21 July 1861 and it referred as the battle of Manassas, however, became known as the Battle of the Bull Run due to meander stream where the battle took placed named Bull Run. It is important to point out that the battle was in repercussion from the attack of the Confederates Armies at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861 near Charlestown South Carolina, “this is known as the beginning of the Civil War.” As a result, then-President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to support the fight against the rebellion of the Confederate Army, to his surprise the number of volunteers surpassed that amount; however, …show more content…
Unlike the Union Army in which Soldiers were untrained and were not used to long road marches, hence causing a domino effect of exhausted Soldiers in the battlefield. To complicate matters even more, during the planning process there were serious issues with the maps and its geography, which brought serious discrepancies in marching routes and distances for rally …show more content…
At the time the mindset was that the war will be over soon and it would just be like watching a sporting event, to the extent that a New York volunteer said “What a picnic”. The reality was that some civilians were seriously hurt, killed and even captured. At the end, it brought the cruel reality of what was to come on future skirmishes during the Civil