This was before the start of what some believe as "the first real civil war." (Catton 108). The

battle, demonstrating as it did the effectiveness of the Confederate army, changed the status of the

conflict from a rebellion to a civil war. Six hundred thousand young Americans, alive when 1860

ended, would all of the explosion in the next four years. The Confederates had won the war, but

their efforts, Jackson complained, left them "more disorganized by victory than [the Union army

One major battle that led to Gettysburg and the Confederate defeat was the battle of Bull

Run. The battle took place on July 21, 1961, and was to be the day "bearing the fate of the

newborn confederacy." (Beauregard). The battle of Bull Run was fought in Virginia, near the

Manassas, Virginia railway junction, after which the battle is called (or First Bull Run, named after

the flowing stream on the battlefield). According to Michael Golay, author of To Gettsburg and

Beyond, Lieutenant Haskell, a Union aide, remarked that:

At the early battles we thought that w

There were incredible moves made by the generals. Although most were successful, some

Bee, Edwell, Jones, Longstreet, Cocke, Early, Holmes, Kershaw, Evans, Jackson, Bartow, Smith,

General George E. Meade. Both Meade and Lee were professional soldiers and graduates of

unit. According to Marshal, author of Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War-Vol.2:

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