Remembring the Civil War

buzzz worthy. . . A Union solider stands watch at the Manassas, VA Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War. The war started in 1961 months earlier with the Battle of Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Over 18,000 inexperienced soldiers on both sides arrived to the scene by rail. Confederate soldiers had the advantage until a brigadier general from the Virginia Military Institute, Thomas J. Jackson was assigned to teach Union troops how to fight. Although many lives were lost the brigade was indominable and Jackson received his famous nickname, "Stonewall Jackson".