Wednesday, August 17, 2011

150th Anniversary Battle of First Manassas Part 3 (Known also as Bull Run)

gettysburgdaily.com  " In the first Manassas 150th Anniversary post we showed the structures that were put in place for the commemoration ceremonies of the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of First Manassas (First Bull Run).
"In the second First Manassas 150th Anniversary post we concentrated on the material around the Henry House on Henry Hill, including tents, equipment, and artillery pieces.
"In today’s First Manassas 150th Anniversary post we feature the Stone House or Matthews’ House. We were fortunate to have been allowed in the house that evening."

The Stone House, or Matthews’ House, located along the Warrenton Turnpike, was constructed 
circa 1848.  It served as a hospital during the First Battle of Manassas and the Second Battle of Manassas.

The Union tended to name battles after the nearest river while the South used the name of a nearby town. The North named the Battle of Antietam after the creek on the battlefield; the South called it the Battle of Sharpsburg, the town there. So also with their armies; Union armies were generally named after rivers and Confederates after states. (Army of Tennessee was Confederate; Army of the Tennessee was Union.)

"Popular fervor led President Lincoln to push a cautious Brigadier General Irvin McDowell, commander of the Union army in Northern Virginia, to attack the Confederate forces commanded by Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard, which held a relatively strong position along Bull Run, just northeast of Manassas Junction. The goal was to make quick work of the bulk of the Confederate army, open the way to Richmond, the Confederate capital, and end the war."

July 14, 1861 – Lincoln to McDowell: “You Are All Green Alike”  "General George B. McClellan, with far fewer men, cleared out western Virginia, and is now threatening the Old Dominion from the west. The question has become, what will McDowell do with his large force? Word has been that the men in his army have been training, but with their 90 day enlistments almost at an end, it seems they may have trained for nothing.
"That may have changed today as many of the Union forces have been transferred south toward Fairfax Courthouse in Virginia. Sources say that the move comes against McDowell's wishes; his complaint being that his men are all green. “They are green, it is true, but they are green also,” [Lincoln] reportedly said, referring to the Confederates. “You are all green alike.”

1 comment:

Ronbo said...

@Bill

Excellent article as usual!

Please post on my blog with a link back to you.

The Republic is very lucky that Lee had not been in command of the rebel forces on that fateful day in 1861, because the all star team of Lee and Jackson would have followed up the defeat of the Union army with the capture of Washington, D.C. and most of the federal government, perhaps even Lincoln.

I daresay the price of their release would have been Southern Independence and the subdivision of the USA into two or more countries.

Cheers, Ronbo

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