Warm Up

Grab a Blue Sheet from Table in front of room.

Prep fo’ Notes

The First Battle of Bull Run

Lincoln Fires Scott

Lincoln Needed a Battlefield General

Scott was not his man

Hires Irwin McDowell to command Army of Northeastern VA

The First Battle of Bull Run

July 1861 Irwin McDowell marches troops South

from DC to recapture Manassas Junction

Manassas Junction was important railroad juncture

Confederates Entrench

PGT Beauregard entrenches along Bull Run Creek

The Social Event of the Time!

Washington Elites go to picnic to watch the battle

Initial Success!

McDowell breaks through enemy lines early

A Legend is Born!

Thomas Jackson rallies Confederates!

Holds line like “A Stone Wall”

Confederates Rally!

Hold line then counterattack through Union Lines

Picnickers are forced to retreat with Soldiers

Union dead and wounded left on the field

A Union Defeat

Disaster for the Union

McDowell is fired

This is going to last longer than 3 months

Take Out Your Eyewitness Packet

Open To First Bull Run

We Are Going To Read Out Loud

A New Star Rises?

Lincoln hires George B. McClellan to command new Army of the Potomac

Activity

Work on the Johnny Reb Jumble!