1st Manassas was purdy shocking, LH... All the DC socialites dressed up and packed picnic baskets to watch and ended up in a hasty retreat when the Southerners kicked some serious butt on the Union boys who ended up running literally for their lives along with the DC socialites...

Had Gen. Johnston and then Col. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson continued the battle by trying to run down the Union boys it is conceivable that the South could have won the war that day by pushing into the Capitol and taking it... They had the troops to do it and they knew the terrain well...

B~