A sweeping tour of the battlefield of First Manassas as seen through the lenses of our nation's pioneer photographers. The bloody battle raged with stunning fury, leaving behind shockingly high fatalities and laying waste to the once peaceful landscape. It was the epic battle that proved it was not to be the predicted "ninety-day war." Travel in the footsteps of Mathew Brady's talented photographers as they capture the sights and scenes of Centreville and Manassas, where war had come to visit and tragic notoriety had come to stay.