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1 Warm Up Grab a Blue Sheet from Table in front of room. Prep fo’ Notes

2 The First Battle of Bull Run

3 Lincoln Fires Scott  Lincoln Needed a Battlefield General  Scott was not his man  Hires Irwin McDowell to command Army of Northeastern VA

4 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

5 Confederates Entrench  PGT Beauregard entrenches along Bull Run Creek

6 The Social Event of the Time!  Washington Elites go to picnic to watch the battle

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8 Initial Success!  McDowell breaks through enemy lines early

9 A Legend is Born!  Thomas Jackson rallies Confederates!  Holds line like “A Stone Wall”

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13 Confederates Rally!  Hold line then counterattack through Union Lines  Picnickers are forced to retreat with Soldiers  Union dead and wounded left on the field

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15 A Union Defeat  Disaster for the Union  McDowell is fired  This is going to last longer than 3 months

16 Take Out Your Eyewitness Packet  Open To First Bull Run  We Are Going To Read Out Loud

17 A New Star Rises?  Lincoln hires George B. McClellan to command new Army of the Potomac

18 Activity  Work on the Johnny Reb Jumble!

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