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On This Day in Confederate History, July 21.

1861: The First Battle of Manassas, Va. is fought along Bull Run Creek on this day and was a great Confederate victory. The battle starts on the Confederate left wing at Matthew's and Henry House Hills with the 4th South Carolina Volunteers and the 1st Battalion (Wheat's) Louisiana delaying Federals under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell long enough for Confederates to get to Henry House Hill where Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson and his First Virginia Brigade stop the Federate advance. Jackson and his brigade get their famous nickname, Stonewall. More Confederate and Federal reinforcements pour in and the battle sways back and forth much of the day until in the late afternoon the Confederates break the Federal line and commence a stampede back to Washington, D.C., Gens. P.G.T. Beauregard and Joseph E. Johnston get the credit for a masterful victory in the first major battle of the war. The Federals lost 481 killed, 1,011 wounded and 1,216 missing. The Confederates suffered 381 killed, 1,582 wounded, and 13 missing.

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Pvt. William Baxter Ott, Co. I, 4th Va. Inf.

Stonewall Brigade

Killed in action at First Manassas.

(Liljenquist Collection, Library of Congress)

Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard

He was appointed a full general to date from July 21, 1861

At this point, he was the first national hero of the Confederacy.

1864: Atlanta Campaign: Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood keeps up his offensive and sent Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee and Maj. Gen. B.F. Cheatham's Corps and Maj. Gen. Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler's Cavalry toward Decatur, Ga. to attack the flank of the Federal Army of the Tennessee, under Maj. James McPherson, the next day. 

Confederate General Birthdays, July 21.

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