American Civil WarStuff Happened · War
Battle · Eastern Theatre
Second Bull Run
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The second time on the same field
A New Army, an Old Battlefield
Lincoln builds a new army under Pope (North); Lee shifts north to wreck it, on the exact ground of the first battle.
2Fifty miles around the back
Jackson Burns the Supply Depot
Jackson marches fifty miles into Pope’s (North) rear, takes the great depot at Manassas Junction, feasts, and burns the rest.
3Throwing an army at a wall
The Wall Behind the Railroad
Pope (North) hurls divisions piecemeal at Jackson’s dug-in line while Longstreet’s wing slips unseen onto the flank.
4Twenty-eight thousand men at once
Longstreet’s Avalanche
Longstreet (South) unleashes the war’s largest mass assault into the exposed Union left; rearguard stands buy the army its escape.
5The defeat that set up emancipation
What the Victory Unleashed
About 22,000 fall. Pope (North) is finished and Porter (North) is scapegoated, and the defeat opens the road to Antietam and emancipation.