Wars and Battles
Second Battle of Bull Run
August 28-30, 1862
Second ManassasIn order to draw John Pope’s Union armyinto battle, Thomas Jackson ordered an attack on a Federal column passing across his front on the Warrenton Turnpike on August 28. The fighting lasted several hours and resulted in a stalemate. Pope became convinced that he had trapped Jackson and concentrated the bulk of his army against him. 
On August 29, Pope launched a series of assaults against Jackson’s position along an unfinished railroad grade. The attacks were repulsed with heavy casualties on both sides. Later, Confederate reinforcements under James Longstreet arrived on the field and took a position on Jackson’s right flank. On August 30, Pope renewed his attacks, seemingly unaware that the opposition had been strengthened. When massed Confederate artillery devastated a Union assault, 28,000 Confederate men counterattacked in the largest simultaneous mass assault of the war. The Union left flank was crushed and the army driven back to Bull Run. Only an effective Union rearguard action prevented a repetition of the First Bull Run disaster. This was the decisive battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign.
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First battle of Bull Run
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