Civil War Day-By-Day

July 18, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• First Battle of Bull Run²: an engagement took place at Blackford’s Ford, Bull Run, between Union troops under Gen. Tyler and the rebels
  under Beauregard. Gen. Tyler fell back to Centreville.

1. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863
2. Actually, Battle of Blackburn’s Ford, a prelude to Bull Run