Stonwall Jackson.
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General p.t beauregard
General p.t beauregard
At the battle of First Manassas the fighting on the field was led by general Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. He was assigned to that purpose by his ranking officer general Joseph Eggleston Johnston, who held the general supervision of the operations organizing and coordinating the affluence of reinforcements. The most effective tactical action was that led by general Jackson, whose brigade managed to held on its "crucial" position on the Matthew's Hill against the superior Union Forces until reinforcements arrived.
The Union.
Hannibal had deployed his troops in such a way that his cavalry and best troops stood at the edges of his battle formation while his center was kept realatively weak . The result was that his center quickly went into a controlled retreat when the Romans attacked while Hannibal's flanks held their ground or did not even have to engage. By pushing back the center without pushing back the flank troops, the Romans created a semicircle in which ever more Roman troops entered with hardly any room for manoeuvering. Then Hannibal's cavalry and flank troops who had gotten almost automatically in the Romans' rear, attacked. The Romans, squeezed togeter in the encirclement they had created themselves, were attacked from all sides and killed off wholesale.