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PRINCE WILLIAM, Virginia in the 1860s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Union Colonel Withstands Retreat at Bull Run
    date July 21, 1861map PRINCE WILLIAM, Virginiatags Civil War, Battle of Bull Run

    Union Colonel Robert McAllister participated in the Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia on July 21, 1861.  McAllister and the 1st New Jersey volunteers were instructed to act as a rear guard at the town of Centreville for General Irvin McDowell’s routed force. The Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of the Civil War. After the arrival of Confederate reinforcements, Union soldiers...

  2. "The Slow Dead March of Camp-Disease": Death in the American Civil War
    date November 25, 1861map PRINCE WILLIAM, Virginiatags Charles Manning Furman, Typhoid fever, Disease, Civil War

    Charles Furman had known Fannie Garden for only 13 days before he asked her to marry him. In all, they spent less than a month together before the Confederate government ordered him northward to fight the “soulless soldiers” of the “despised Yankee Nation." The letters they wrote in the years that followed captured both their own deepening love and the chaos and carnage of the American Civil...

  3. The Battle of Bristoe Station
    date October 14, 1863map PRINCE WILLIAM, Virginiatags War

    After the Battle of Gettysburg, Union General George G. Meade and Robert E. Lee of the Confederates headed south to Virginia in a footrace to gain a position in the Blue Ridge Mountains. At Bristoe Station, Virginia, Federal and Confederate corps crossed paths, and battle ensued. Confederate General A.P. Hill underestimated the size of the Union army and attacked an overwhelmingly large Union force,...