A report on Stephen H. Weed, Second Battle of Bull Run and Battle of Gettysburg

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

Northern Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, 1861–1865

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

This 1863 oval-shaped map depicts the Gettysburg Battlefield during July 1–3, 1863, showing troop and artillery positions and movements, relief hachures, drainage, roads, railroads, and houses with the names of residents at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg.

This November 1862 Harper's Magazine illustration shows Confiderate Army troops escorting captured African American civilians south into slavery. En route to Gettysburg, the Army of Northern Virginia kidnapped approximately 40 black civilians and sent them south into slavery.

Overview map of the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg

August 29, 12 noon: Longstreet arrives, Porter stalls

Marker commemorating the first shot fired at the Battle of Gettysburg at 7:30 am on July 1, 1863 by Lt. Marcellus Jones

Robert E. Lee's plan for July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg

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

Overview map of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

Stonewall Jackson's cannons on Henry House Hill

Union Army breastworks on Culp's Hill, 1863

Overview map of the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863

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

The high water mark on Cemetery Ridge with the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Monument commemorating the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment at right and the Copse of Trees to the left, August 2005

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

"The Harvest of Death": Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, photographed July 5 or July 6, 1863, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan

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

John L. Burns, veteran of the War of 1812, civilian who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg with Union troops, standing with bayoneted musket. Mathew Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, photographer. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Bridge crossed by the Union troops retreating to Centreville

Gettysburg Campaign (July 5 – July 14, 1863)

Soldiers stand next to a completely destroyed Henry House in 1862

On November 19, 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, considered one of the best-known speeches in American history. A crowd of citizens and soldiers surround Lincoln (with a red arrow pointing to his location in photo)

<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>

The 1936 Battle of Gettysburg half dollar

Gettysburg Centennial Commemorative issue of 1963

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

Gettysburg Campaign (through July 3) with cavalry movements shown with dashed lines Confederate
Union

<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

He was killed defending Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.

- Stephen H. Weed

He remained at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, training his crews until the spring of 1862, when they served in the Peninsula Campaign and at Second Bull Run.

- Stephen H. Weed

Brig Gen. George Sykes (brigades of Lt. Col. Robert C. Buchanan, Lt. Col. William Chapman, Col. Gouverneur K. Warren, Cpt. Stephen H. Weed)

- Second Battle of Bull Run

The Union lost Generals John Reynolds, Samuel K. Zook, Stephen H. Weed, and Elon J. Farnsworth, as well as Strong Vincent, who after being mortally wounded was given a deathbed promotion to brigadier general.

- Battle of Gettysburg

Prior to Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee had established a reputation as an almost invincible general, achieving stunning victories against superior numbers—although usually at the cost of high casualties to his army—during the Seven Days, the Northern Virginia Campaign (including the Second Battle of Bull Run), Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.

- Battle of Gettysburg

James Longstreet was criticized for his performance during the battle and the postbellum advocates of the Lost Cause claimed that his slowness, reluctance to attack, and disobedience to Gen. Lee on August 29 were a harbinger of his controversial performance to come on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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V Corps (Union Army)

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Unit of the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.

The V Corps saw action at the Second Battle of Bull Run, fighting on the left wing of the Union army.

The corps arrived at the eastern end of the Gettysburg battlefield on July 2.

Stephen H. Weed and Strong Vincent (who was quickly promoted not long before his death for his heroic efforts on Little Round Top).