Visiting the Manassas Battlefield and Prince William County, Va.

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In July 1861, the first real battle of the Civil War was fought at Manassas, Va., near Bull Run Creek. Before the war and the 1858 arrival of the railroad, this area about 30 miles southeast of Washington, DC, was mostly farm country. Manassas wasn’t even formally chartered as a town until 1873, when war veterans View Website VIP Subscription