where was the first land battle of the american civil war
The first of the major battles between the union and the confederacy was fought in July 1861.The battle took place at bull run ,a stream near the town of Manassas Junction. <br /> <br /> Most US Civil War historians cite the First Battle of Bull Run, a Confederate victory to be the first major land battle of the Civil War. Bull Run was a creek that ran near Manassas rail head in Virginia.
The first major Civil War battle fought west of the Mississippi River was that of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, fought on August 9, 1861 between a Union Army of about 5,400 men , â¦led by Gen. Lyon and Gen. Sterling Price's Missouri State Guard of 11,600 men. Lyon was defeated and killed.