Doesn't Mean Anything. Doesn't Mean Anything is a song by American recording artist Alicia Keys. It written and produced by Keys and longtime partner Kerry Krucial Brothers for her fourth studio album, The Element of Freedom (2009), with its lyrics speaking about the importance of love against materialism and fake needs.
It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope 's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (or First Manassas) fought on July 21, 1861 on the same ground.t was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope 's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (or First Manassas) fought on July 21, 1861 on the same ground.
Name: First Battle of Bull Run or the First Battle of Manassas. War: American Civil War. Date of the First Battle of Bull Run: 18th to 21st July 1861. Generals commanding at the First Battle of Bull Run: The Federal Army commanded by Brigadier General Irvin McDowell. The Confederate Army commanded by Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnston and Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard.