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Union
Confederacy
Objective : To Defend for further strategic value
Objective : Capture the area, because it holds
in observation
the main federal army being assembled at that time, as well
as having many resources which were essential to the Confederate
army
Leader : General Irvin McDowell
Civil War actions at Bull Run twice almost
brought the military
career of Irvin McDowell to an inglorious end. The Ohio native
had been raised and educated in France before returning to the
United States to attend West Point where he graduated in 1838
and was posted to the artillery. He spent four years as a tactics
instructor before serving on John E. Wool's staff during the
Mexican
War and being brevetted for Buena Vista. During the interwar
years he served in the adjutant general's department.
- Source: "Who Was Who In The Civil War"
by Stewart Sifakis
Leader : General Joseph E. Johnston
Petty considerations over rank and military
etiquette and wounds
cost the Confederacy, for lengthy periods, the services of one
of its most effective, top commanders, Joseph E. Johnston.
The Virginia native and West Pointer (1829), rated by many as
more
capable than Lee, was the highest-ranking regular army officer
to resign and join the Confederacy. With the staff rank of
brigadier general, he had been the national army's quartermaster
general
for almost a year when he quit on April 22, 1861.
Soldiers : 28,450 soldiers
2950 casualties
Soldiers : 32,230 soldiers
1750 casualties