The First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence, July 18-21, 1861

Unmatched in its description of the battle's tactics and actual fighting.--Ethan Rafuse, author of McClellan's War

On July 21, 1861, near a Virginia railroad junction twenty-five miles from Washington, DC, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in the first major battle of the Civil War. This revised edition of Hennessy's classic is the premier tactical account of First Manassas/Bull Run.

Combines narrative, analysis, and interpretation into a clear, easy-to-follow account of the battle's unfolding

Features commanders who would later become legendary, such as William T. Sherman and Thomas J. Jackson, who earned his "Stonewall" nickname at First Manassas

• Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas
• The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
• Chancellorsville
• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
• The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock
• Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas
• The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864
• To The Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign
• On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
• Gettysburg