The First Battle of Bull Run
Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
The First Battle of Bull Run was the first "real" battle of the civil war. The union army wanted to destroy the South and to do this, they decided to go straight to Richmond, the Confederate capitol. They met Confederate troops and almost made them retreat, but at the last second Confederate reinforcements came and pushed back the Union army. Eventually, the Union retreated. This battle proved that the war wouldn't be one-sided and that both sides had a chance to win.
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was the Colonel of Virginia Militia. He got his nickname because nothing could change his mind and he always knew exactly what he wanted to do.