A report on James Longstreet, Second Battle of Bull Run and Battle of Chantilly

Second Battle of Bull Run, fought Augt. 29th 1862, 1860s lithograph by Currier and Ives

Second Bull Run Campaign, August 17–30, 1862 (Additional map).

August 30, 4 p.m.: Start of Longstreet's attack

Ox Hill Battlefield Park, with monuments to Stevens and Kearny

Longstreet at Gettysburg c. undefined 1900

August 29, 12 noon: Longstreet arrives, Porter stalls

August 29, 5–7 p.m., Kearny's attack, Hood vs. Hatch

Longstreet's Left Wing assaults, mid-day September 20

Stonewall Jackson's cannons on Henry House Hill

August 30, 4:30 p.m.: Union defense of Chinn Ridge

James Longstreet in later life (1896), affecting the sideburns of his opponent at Fredericksburg and Knoxville

August 30, 5 p.m.: Final Confederate attacks, beginning of the Union retreat

Bridge crossed by the Union troops retreating to Centreville

Equestrian statue of General Longstreet on his horse Hero in Pitzer Woods at Gettysburg National Military Park

Soldiers stand next to a completely destroyed Henry House in 1862

Map of events during the Peninsula campaign to the Battle of Seven Pines Confederate
Union

Longstreet's attack in the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, shortly before he was wounded Confederate
Union

<center>Soldiers stand next to a completely destroyed Henry House in 1862</center>

<center>Virginia, Bull Run. Ruins of Stone Bridge, 1862</center>

<center>A group of men stand near the Manassas Railroad Junction railroad tracks in 1862 with a train in the background</center>

<center>A group of men near Manassas Railroad Junction in 1862</center>

<center>Men sit near the Manassas Junction railroad in 1862</center>

<center>Picking up debris of trains after Pope's retreat</center>

<center>Bull Run, Va. Dedication of the battle monument; Judge Abram B. Olin of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, who delivered the address, stands by the rail.</center>

Battle map drafted by Sneden, Robert Knox, with notes on Union and Confederate strengths, casualties, done in pen and ink and water color

Northern Virginia Campaign, August 7–28, 1862 Confederate
Union

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's corps of the Army of Northern Virginia attempted to cut off the line of retreat of the Union Army of Virginia following the Second Battle of Bull Run but was attacked by two Union divisions.

- Battle of Chantilly

Following a wide-ranging flanking march, Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson captured the Union supply depot at Manassas Junction, threatening Pope's line of communications with Washington, D.C. Withdrawing a few miles to the northwest, Jackson took up strong concealed defensive positions on Stony Ridge and awaited the arrival of the wing of Lee's army commanded by Maj. Gen. James Longstreet.

- Second Battle of Bull Run

Longstreet led a devastating counterattack that routed the Union army at Second Bull Run in August.

- James Longstreet

Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's command would remain in place for the day to deceive Pope into believing that Lee's entire force remained in his front, while Jackson's command made its flanking march, north and then east, to take strategically important Germantown, Virginia, where Pope's only two routes to Washington—the Warrenton Pike (modern U.S. Route 29) and the Little River Turnpike (modern U.S. Route 50)—converged.

- Battle of Chantilly

On September 1, Jackson's corps moved to cut off the Union retreat at the Battle of Chantilly.

- James Longstreet

Pope countered the move and the two forces clashed a final time at the Battle of Chantilly (also known as Ox Hill) on September 1.

- Second Battle of Bull Run

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Gen. Pope's headquarters during the battle of Cedar Mountain

Army of Virginia

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Organized as a major unit of the Union Army and operated briefly and unsuccessfully in 1862 in the American Civil War.

The entire army was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run by Jackson, Longstreet, and Lee, and withdrew to the defensive lines of Washington, D.C. On September 12, 1862, the units of the Army of Virginia were merged into the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Virginia was never reconstituted.

Battle of Chantilly – Pope (although fought mostly by Army of the Potomac troops, elements of Pope's force were engaged)

Union General George B. McClellan and Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the principal commanders of the campaign

Maryland campaign

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The Maryland campaign (or Antietam campaign) occurred September 4–20, 1862, during the American Civil War.

Northern Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania (1861-1865)

Confederate troops marching south on N Market Street, Frederick, Maryland, during the Civil War

Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), September 17, 1862

Maryland campaign, actions September 3–15, 1862
Confederate
Union

Lee then conducted the northern Virginia campaign in which he outmaneuvered and defeated Maj. Gen. John Pope and his Army of Virginia, most significantly at the Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas).

The First Corps, under Maj. Gen. James Longstreet, consisted of the divisions of Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws, Maj. Gen. Richard H. Anderson, Brig. Gen. David R. Jones, Brig. Gen. John G. Walker, Brig. Gen. John Bell Hood, and an independent brigade under Brig. Gen. Nathan G. "Shanks" Evans.

On September 3, just two days after the Battle of Chantilly, Lee wrote to President Davis that he had decided to cross into Maryland unless the president objected.