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Preferred Citation

Map of the Bull Run Campaign, Accession #5975-a, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

The Butler copy of the Mitchell map was a gift to the Library from Mrs. Elizabeth V. Henneman of Charlottesville, Virginia on July 7, 1981.

Scope and Content Information

This hand-colored map depicts the two major engagements of the Bull Run Campaign of 1861, Blackburn's Ford on July 18, and First Bull Run (First Manassas) on July 21. It is a copy by E. Butler, a resident of Prince William County, Virginia, from the original "Sketch of the Country Occupied by the Federal and Confederate Armies on the 18th and 21st of July, 1861," by Captain Samuel P. Mitchell of the First Virginia Regiment. Mitchell's map was published in Richmond, Virginia, by W. Hargrave White in 1861 and lithographed by F.W. Borneman of South Carolina and shows the dispositions of Federal and Confederate units before and during the two engagements, as well as major landmarks including Henry Hill, the Stone Bridge, Sudley Church, the Leesburg Road, and the Confederate Hospital. It should be noted that Butler's copy differs from the original map in several aspects particularly the inclusion of the sites of Butler family homes, leading to the supposition that Butler may have been an eye witness.

Confederate units identified include: First Virginia Regiment, 11th Virginia Regiment, 17th Virginia Regiment, John Smith Preston's Virginia Regiment, James Lawson Kemper's Virginia Regiment, James Longstreet's Brigade, the Washington Artillery of New Orleans, Louisiana, Latham's Virginia Battery, Milledge Lake Bonham's South Carolina Brigade, Sloan's 4th South Carolina Regiment, Alabama and Mississippi Regiments; Chatham Roberdeau Wheat's Battalion, (Louisiana Tigers), Strange's Regiment, 8th Georgia Regiment, Cash's South Carolina Regiment, Joseph Brevard Kershaw's South Carolina Regiment, Shield's Battery, Wade Hampton's South Carolina Legion, Fisher's North Carolina Regiment, Edmund Kirby Smith's 4th Brigade, and Wither's Virginia Regiment. Union units identified include: David Hunter's 2nd Division, Simon Goodell Griffith's Battery, James Brewerton Rickett's Battery, Daniel Tyler's First Division, (Connecticut Volunteers), Carlisle's Battery, adn a Rhode Island Battery. An insert map of the country between Washington, D.C. and Fredericksburg, Virginia locates the Bull Run and Potomac Rivers, Fairfax County, Centreville, Alexandria, Bristol, Manassas, Prince William County, Fairfax Station, Mount Vernon, the Occoquan River, Occoquan, Dumfries, Stafford County, Acquia, Acquia Creek, Port Tobacco, Falmouth, King George County, and Mathias Point.