The information comes after The Exists discovered that Natalie Imbrugliaâs song âTornâ has been played over 75 times a day on Australian radio over a ten-year period, so they decided to look into what the most popular song in the world is.
The Battle of First Manassas (First Bull Run) Cheers rang out in the streets of Washington on July 16, 1861 as Gen. Irvin McDowellâs army, 35,000 strong, marched out to begin the long-awaited campaign to capture Richmond and end the war. It was an army of green recruits, few of whom had the faintest idea of the magnitude of the task facing them.
Lincoln's hopes had been high the previous summer, but then a 35,000-man Union army under Gen. Irvin McDowell was routed at the Civil War's first major engagement, the First B â¦ attle of Bull Run (Manassas), on July 21, 1861. A Union victory was expected at the first Battle of Bull Run. It was indeed a shock to have suffered a defeat.