Bull Run
or BULL'S RUN, a stream in Virginia, dividing Fairfax and Prince William counties, in the N.
E. part of the State, and flowing into the Occoquan river 14 miles from the Potomac. On its banks were fought two of the most memorable battles during the Civil War. After a series of heavy skirmishes, July 16-19, 1861, the Union army under General McDowell was, on the 21st, utterly routed by the Confederates under the command of Generals Beauregard and J. E. Johnston. The Union loss was about 3,000 men, while that of the Confederates was estimated at nearly 2,000 men. The former lost, in addition, 27 guns, besides an immense quantity of small arms, ammunition, 1878. In 1888 he was appointed minisstores, provisions, and accouterments. ter to Rumania, and ambassador to Italy On Aug. 30, 1862, another great battle in 1893; but was called back to Berlin was fought here between the Union in 1897 to hold the portfolio of foreign forces commanded by General Pope, and the Confederates under Generals Lee, Longstreet, and "Stonewall" Jackson, when the former were again defeated with heavy loss. The three battles of Groveton, Bull's Run, and Chantilly, fought in three successive days, cost the Union cause about 20,000 men in killed, wounded, missing, and prisoners, 30 guns, and 30,000 small arms. The first battle of Bull Run is sometimes known as the battle of Manassas.