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.
The First Battle of Bull Run is known as the first true battle of the American Civil War. It occurred on July 21, 1861, just 30 miles outside of Washington, D.C., and resulted in nearly 5,000 casualties.f course, today, it's known as the First Battle of Bull Run, or the First Manassas. In late August 1862, Union and Confederate forces again met in battle on the same fields in a much larger conflict.