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Two months after confederate troops opened fire on fort sumpter to begin the civil war.
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the offensive would begin with an attack on more than 20,000 confederate troops under the command of General P.G.T Beauregard..
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McDowells army began moving out of washington
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July 16; its slow movement allowed Beauregard to call on his other Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston for reinforcements.
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Lincoln ordered him to begin the offensive nonetheless, reasoning that the army was made up of similar soldiers.
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General Barnard Bee told the soldiers, and to look at Jackson standing there like a stone wall.
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Beauregard camped near Manassas Junction, Virginia (25 miles from Washington, D.C.) along a little river known as Bull Run.
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The press and public were waitng for the union army to go to Richmond together.
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McDowells union forced struck aginst the north
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Crossed over the river at Sudley Ford, 10000 federals pushed back 4500 rebels across the Warrington turnpike. In the afternoon both sides attacked and counterattacks near Henery House Hill.By 4 o'clock, beauregard orderd a counterattack along the entire line, both sides had equal number of men on the battle feild, 18000 on each side.
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By four o'clock in the afternoon, both sides had an equal number of men on the field of battle (about 18,000 men were on each side), and Beauregard ordered a counterattack along the entire line.
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First battle of bull run (called First Manassas in the south) cost some 3,000 union casualties, compared with 1750 for the confederates.
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In fact, both sides would soon have to face the reality of a long, conflict that would take a BIG toll on the country and our countries people.
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On the Confederate side, Beauregard and President Jefferson Davis was to blame for the failure, of the confederate, to pursue and crush the enemy after the battle.
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Encouraged by early victories by Union troops in West Virginia, and by the war fever spreading through the North, President Abraham Lincoln ordered Brigadier General Irvin McDowell to mount an offensive that would hit quickly and decisively at the enemy and open the way to Richmond, thus bringing the war to a very quick end!
