The Second Bull Run Campaign July-august 1862

In the summer of 1862, George McClellan's Union army was bogged down east of Richmond. In order to break this stalemate, Union officials decided to create a new army in northern Virginia and send it against Richmond from the North. Confederate commander Robert E. Lee, fresh from his costly victory against McClellan in the Seven Days Battle, made a bold decision to risk leaving McClellan in place in order to strike a decisive blow against Pope's new army. Second Bull Run was the culmination of a series of maneuvers by which Lee, Longstreet, Jackson, and Stuart outmarched the larger Union command and outgeneraled its confused commanders. The book's campaign approach also shows the relationship of the culminating battle to the related battles at Cedar Mountain, Groveton, and Chantilly. The Second Bull Run Campaign includes 14 specially commissioned maps by Paul Dangel, the most up-to-date order of battle available, and special sidebars on leaders, units, incidents, and controversies of the campaign. Connections between the First and Second Bull Run battles are examined, the battlefields as they are today are described, and suggestions for further study are made in a descriptive bibliography and reader's guide. Book jacket.

Dr. David G. Martin has written numerous books of military history including The Vicksburg Campaign, The Shiloh Campaign, The Philadelphia Campaign, and Confederate Monuments at Gettysburg.