[rustbucket]

From Wikipedia (it is correct in this case) [my red bold below]:

"The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces), was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War."

The only soldiers invading the other side's land were Northern soldiers invading Virginia.

BTW, I picked "rustbucket" as a handle because I'm older than dirt.

[SkyDancer]

Was that just after the South bombarded Ft. Sumter and some cadets fired on a Union ship trying to supply the fort a few months before the South fired on Sumter initiating the war?

A couple of years back I engaged in a discussion of the War of Secession and it got heated to the point of "what's the use" and I quit. The people supporting the South had their arguments and there were those of us that had ours. All it did was incur a lot of animosity amongst people here at FR and as far as I'm concerned it's over. A hundred and fifty years over. And done.

[SkyDancer]

Was that just after the South bombarded Ft. Sumter and some cadets fired on a Union ship trying to supply the fort a few months before the South fired on Sumter initiating the war?

A couple of years back I engaged in a discussion of the War of Secession and it got heated to the point of "what's the use" and I quit. The people supporting the South had their arguments and there were those of us that had ours. All it did was incur a lot of animosity amongst people here at FR and as far as I'm concerned it's over. A hundred and fifty years over. And done.