The First Battle of Manassas was not only the first large engagement of the US Civil War, but it was also the first time that troops were transported to the battlefield via train. The army of the Confederacy sent in soldiers to reinforce their lines during the First Battle it Manassas.
I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.
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