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Civil War Illustrations

Commencement of the Action at Bull's Run

Men in battle stations overlooking a field with gun and cannon fire

Caption: Commencement of the Action at Bull's Run. Sherman's Battery of Rifled Cannon Engaging the Enemy's First Masked Battery. Sketched on the spot by A. Waud, Esq. See page 202 [for related story].

Source: Illustration from New York Illustrated News, July 29, 1861, page 194.