The Battle First Battle Of Bull Run was also known as The Battle of First Manassas. The Civil War might have started when the Confederacy started to attack Fort Sumter but, the war really didn’t start until The First Battle Of Bull Run. This battle was fought July,21,1861 outside Manassas Junction Virginia just 25 miles from Washington, DC. The union commander is General Irvin McDowell and the commander for the Confederacy is Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard and Joseph Eggleston Johnston. The battle Started when about 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington, D.C. to attack the Confederate’s force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run. When the two armies were face to face their were people on the
