This website contains information about General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson before and during the Civil War. It also contains information about the First Battle of Bull Run. It has a primary source (a newspaper article) about the battle along with graphs showing the number of casualties and troops at the battle.
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StonewallThis page is about Thomas "Stonwall" Jackson's life.
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Bull RunThis page is about the first battle of Bull Run.
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NewspapersThis page has the First Battle Bull Run in the newspapers, a 'letter' from home, and information about the newspaper arcticle.
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GraphsThis page has battle graphs of casualties and numbers.
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"When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard"
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
"Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!"
- Stonewall Jakcson's reply to Colonel B.E Bee when he told him that the enemy was forcing them backward. At the first battle of Bull Run, July 1861.
Bull Run Today
Today, the battle site where the First Battle of Bull Run took place is preserved to honor the men that died there and to remember the first big battle of the Civil War.