The Union plan involved a feinting maneuver at Stone Bridge and Blackburn's Ford to distract the Confederate troops while the rest of the army attacked the Confederate left. The Confederates were pushed back to Henry House Hi
The Union plan involved a feinting maneuver at Stone Bridge and Blackburn's Ford to distract the Confederate troops while the rest of the army attacked the Confederate left. The Confederates were pushed back to Henry House Hill, but there General Barnard Bee observed Thomas Jackson's troops standing "like a stone wall" and halted the Union advance. Irvin McDowell's troops were forced to retreat with the arrival of Joe Johnston's Army of the Shenandoah. FTP what was this battle, the first major conflict in the Eastern theater of the Civil War?
The Union plan involved a feinting maneuver at Stone Bridge and Blackburn's Ford to distract the Confederate troops while the rest of the army attacked the Confederate left.