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It was the culmination of the Northern Virginia Campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (or First Manassas) fought on July 21, 1861, on the same ground.
Battle of Bull Run (used by the Union) or the Battle of Manassas ... First Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861; Second Battle of Bull Run, August 28–30, 1862; Other.
Among the casualties were 22 killed from the 68th (including Kleefish) and 59 wounded, making Second Bull Run one of the unit's bloodiest engagements. [6] The Army of Virginia retreated nearly all the way back to Washington. [29] Pope was relieved and Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan placed in charge of the army once more. [30]
The most significant battle of the campaign, Second Bull Run (Second Manassas), was fought August 28–30. [24] In order to draw Pope's army into battle, Jackson ordered an attack on a Federal column that was passing across his front on the Warrenton Turnpike on August 28, alerting Pope to his position.
As part of General Barnard Bee's brigade, the 2nd Mississippi fought at the First Battle of Bull Run in July. During this battle, the first major action of the war, the 2nd Regiment acted in support of a cavalry charge made by General J.E.B. Stuart, who wrote: "Just after the cavalry charge our re-enforcements arrived upon the field and formed ...
Manassas National Battlefield Park is a unit of the National Park Service located in Prince William County, Virginia, north of Manassas that preserves the site of two major American Civil War battles: the First Battle of Bull Run, also called the Battle of First Manassas, and the Second Battle of Bull Run or Battle of Second Manassas.
First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan; Harper's Weekly 1861 Report on the Battle of Bull Run; Civil War Home website on First Bull Run; Animated history of the First Battle of Bull Run; FirstBullRun.co.uk; The First Battle of Bull Run public domain audiobook at ...
The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Second Battle of Bull Run, called the Second Battle of Manassas by Confederate records, of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization [1] during the battle, [2] [3] the casualty returns [4 ...