a confederate victory claimed victory at the battle of bull run.
a confederate victory claimed victory at the battle of bull run.
who claimed victory at the battle of bull run?
a confederate victory
the first battle of bull run (the name used by union forces), also known as the first battle of manassas (the name used by confederate forces), was the first major battle of the american civil war and was a confederate victory. the battle was fought on july 21, 1861 in prince william county, virginia, just north of the city of manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of washington, d.c. the union's forces were slow in positioning themselves, allowing confederate reinforcements time to arrive by rail. each side had about 18,000 poorly trained and poorly led troops in their first battle. it was a confederate victory, followed by a disorganized retreat of the union forces.
first battle of bull run
in 1973, joseph miller, jr., a retired portland physician, sued the forest service, claiming that its logging violated the bull run trespass act. in 1976, u.s. district judge james m. burns agreed, and logging was halted. shortly thereafter, congress rescinded the bull run trespass act and replaced it with the bull run watershed management act of 1977, which created the bull run watershed management unit (brwmu) (replacing the bull run reserve) and legalized further bull run logging unless it could be shown to reduce water quality. logging and the debate about logging continued. in 1994 about 75 percent of the brwmu was made into a reserve for protecting the northern spotted owl and other species dependent on old-growth forests. in february 1996, runoff from unusually heavy rains in the watershed washed so much eroded soil into the bull run storage reservoirs that the city had to shut down the bull run supply and switch during the crisis to its emergency supply from a well field along the columbia river. later in 1996, congress passed the oregon resources conservation act, which prohibited logging on all forest service lands within the bull run water supply drainage and another of land that drained to the lower bull run river. in 2001, the little sandy act extended the prohibitions to the entire brwmu and public lands along the little sandy river.
bull run river (oregon)