    
Title: 71st Foreground Fires Volley at Advancing Regiment Description: The 71st New York, foreground, fires a volley at an advancing Alabama regiment at Bull Run, Virginia, July 20, 1861, where Union General Irvin McDowell (October 15, 1818-May 4, 1885) led 35,000 Union troops against an equal number of Confederate forces commanded by P.G.T. Beauregard (Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard; May 28, 1818-February 20, 1893), and Joseph E. Johnston (Joseph Eggleston Johnston; February 3, 1807-March 21, 1891), and where Rebel forces flanked the Federal troops, causing them to flee in panic, a rout that saw the first victory of the first great battle of the Civil War going to the South; Category: American Civil War Keywords: American Civil War, Battle of Bull Run (AKA: Battle of Manassas, First Battle of Bull Run, First Battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861), battlefields, battlegrounds, Federal soldiers, Federal troops, firing lines, Union soldiers, Union troops, War Against the South: War Between the States, War for the South, War for the Southern Confederacy, War for the Union, War of the Rebellion. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2025 x 1210 (2.45 MPixels) (1.67) Print Size: 17.1 x 10.2 cm; 6.8 x 4.0 inches File Size: 7.04 MB (7,379,504 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000375446 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
