MANASSAS, VA — This weekend marks the 164th anniversary of the First Battle of Manassas, and the National Park Service has a weekend of events planned to commemorate the first major land battle of the ...
MANASSAS, Va.MANASSAS, Va. — It was Manassas where the greatest army ever assembled in North America first gave battle 150 years ago. It was Manassas where a Confederate colonel earned one of the most ...
Fifty years ago, Glendell Hill became the first black police officer for the predominately white Manassas City Police Department. Since then, he's served his community, breaking barriers and inspiring ...
Today marks your last chance to see an enactment of the First Battle of Manassas on this 140th anniversary of the first major engagement of the War Between the States. Advertised as "the largest Civil ...
MANASSAS, Va. — When it is hot, most of us want to get cool. Today, we would turn on the air conditioning. However, that was not always possible. One early home cooling system emerged in Manassas, ...
The commander of the combined Confederate forces during the fighting at Manassas was Joseph Eggleston Johnston. Johnston, born Feb. 3, 1809, at Cherry Grove, near Farmville, Va., was one of the ablest ...
The city of Manassas, Virginia, made some history of its own on Election Day when residents elected the first Black, woman and Democratic mayor in the city's history. "I went to breakfast this morning ...
The hardened armies that would meet at the Second Battle of Manassas in late August 1862 had none of the naive enthusiasm of the men who a year earlier had joyously marched to the fields around Bull ...