warm up grab a blue sheet from table in front of room. prep fo’ notes
TRANSCRIPT
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!