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BULLRUN
Title: BULLRUN
Category: History
Details: Words: 948 | Pages: 4.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
BULLRUN
Nick Sullo
BATTLE OF BULL RUN
On a warm July day in 1861, two great armies of a divided nation clashed for the first time on the fields overlooking Bull Run. Their ranks were filled with exited young volunteers in colorful new uniforms, gathered from every part of the country. Confident their enemies would run at the first shot, the young recruits were thankful that they would not miss the only battle of what would surely …showed first 75 words of 948 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 948 total…at the end of the battle General Johnson was standing so proud and tall on top of Henry House Hill People said he looked like a stone wall. That is how they came up with the nickname General "Stonewall" Jackson.
The casualties of this bloody encounter was 2,898 men which 460 laid dead 1,124 wounded and 1,312 missing or captured of the union army. The confederate loss was 1,982 men, of which 387 were killed, 1,582 wounded and 13 captured or missing.
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