National Battlefield Park Virginia

this museum is the place of two major battles during the Civil War in which the Confederate army won both.

   At the beginning of the Civil War the northern states assumed this war would be quick and decisive, until the two sides met at Manassas Virginia on July 1861 for the first Battle of Manassas where the Confederate army defeated the federal troops.  The battle was expected to end so fast and decisively that spectators came out to watch, the northern army was defeated so badly that not only the spectaters ran for safety so did the U.S. troops.
   The second battle on these fields, during August 1862 ended in another victory for the southern army and set the stage for General Robert E. Lee to invade the north for the first time.  This is also the site where General Thomas Jackson, a resident of what is now called West Virginia, rallied his troops against a northern advance and earned the nickname "Stonewall Jackson" starting his iconic run as one of the greatest Generals of the Civil War.
   This is a great place to visit with a walking tours around the smaller first battlefield and driving tours around the larger second battlefield and a monument to Gen. Stonewall Jackson.
 
    

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