<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" id="mwmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: At the order of President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" id="mwmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, Union troops begin a 25-mile <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manassas_campaign" id="mwmg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Manassas campaign">march</a> into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" id="mwmw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> for what will become the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run" id="mwnA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First Battle of Bull Run">First Battle of Bull Run</a>, the first major land battle of the war.<sup about="#mwt41" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_16#cite_note-8" id="mwnQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwng">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt38" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFEdward_G._Longacre2014">Edward G. Longacre (22 October 2014). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0nUCBQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA535" id="mwBrU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBrY">The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861</i></a>. University of Oklahoma Press. p.<span id="mwBrc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>535. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBrg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBrk" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-8061-4761-1" id="mwBro" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8061-4761-1"><bdi id="mwBrs">978-0-8061-4761-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt38" class="Z3988" id="mwBrw" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Early+Morning+of+War%3A+Bull+Run%2C+1861&amp;rft.pages=535&amp;rft.pub=University+of+Oklahoma+Press&amp;rft.date=2014-10-22&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8061-4761-1&amp;rft.au=Edward+G.+Longacre&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D0nUCBQAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA535&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+16"></span></span>