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2nd Battle of Bull Run

Confederate Commander

Gen. Robert E. Lee

Forces Engaged: 49,000

Killed: 1,553

Wounded: 7,812

Captured or Missing: 109

Total: 9,474

August 29-30, 1862

Prince William County, Virginia

Confederate Victory

Also known as: 2nd Battle of Manassas

Northern Virginia Campaign

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Union Commander

Maj. Gen. John Pope

Forces Engaged: 70,000

Killed: 1,747

Wounded: 8,452

Captured or Missing: 4,263

Total: 14,462

Confederate Officers

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Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson

Maj. Gen. David R. Jones

Maj. Gen. Ambrose Hill

Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart

Brig. Gen. William B. Taliaferro

Brig. Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox

Brig. Gen. Roger A. Pryor

Brig. Gen. Winfield S. Featherston

Brig. Gen. John B. Hood

Brig. Gen. Nathan S. Evans

Brig. Gen. James H. Lane

Brig. Gen. Samuel McGowan

Brig. Gen. William D. Pender

Brig. Gen. James J. Archer

Brig. Gen. Edward L. Thomas

Brig. Gen. Jubal A. Early

Brig. Gen. Isaac R. Trimble

Brig. Gen. Beverly H. Robertson

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Longstreet's Corps Order of Battle

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Jackson's Corps Order of Battle

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Confederate Official Records

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National Park Service

Battle of Second Manassas (Second Bull Run)

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American Battlefield Trust

Second Manassas

​The Battle of Manassas

Second Manassas / Aug 28, 1862 / Brawner's Farm

Second Manassas / Longstreet's Assault / Aug 30, 1862 / 3:45 to 4:30 p.m.

Second Manassas - Porter's Attack - August 30, 1862 - 3pm to 3:45pm

Battle of Second Manassas: Official Report of Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson

The Battle of Second Manassas: Then & Now

Colonel G. K. Warren's Account of the Second Battle of Manassas

Moments in Time: The Battle of Second Manassas - Longstreet's Assault

Moments in Time: The Battle of Second Manassas - The Railroad Cut, Part 2

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American History Central

The Second Battle of Ball Run, 1862

Second Battle of Bull Run Facts

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Emerging Civil War

Rocks or Bullets? Causes of Casualties at Second Manassas

Assessing the Enemy: James Longstreet and John Pope at Second Bull Rum

A Thousand Words a Battle: Second Manassas

"Too Trivial for Big History" One Yankee Private and Three Accounts of Second Bull Run

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Warfare History Network

Longstreet's Hammer Blow at Manassas

Stonewall Jackson's Hard Defeat at the Second Battle of Manassas

Grover's Savage Attack at the Battle of Second Manassas

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Essential Civil War Curriculum

The Second Battle of Bull Run

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ThoughtCo.

Second Battle of Bull Run

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WarHistory.org

Lee Divides and Conquers at the Second Battle of Bull Run

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War History Online

Aggressive Tactics at 2nd Bull Run to Pope's Defeat

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YouTube.com

Second Manassas August 28-30, 1862

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U.S. Army Center of Military History

Second Bull Run Staff Ride

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Civil War Atlas Maps

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Library of Congress Maps

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Pictures

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New York Times Articles

August 31, 1862, page 1

August 31, 1862, page 4

September 1, 1862

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Harper's Weekly

September 13, 1862

September 20, 1862

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Union Officers

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Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel

Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks

Maj. Gen. Irwin McDowell

Maj. Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman

Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker

Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno

Brig. Gen. Robert C. Schenck

Brig. Gen. Julius Stahel

Brig. Gen. Carl Schurz

Brig. Gen. Robert H. Milroy

Brig. Gen. John P. Hatch

Brig. Gen. Abner Doubleday

Brig. Gen. John Gibbon

Brig. Gen. James B. Ricketts

Brig. Gen. John F. Reynolds

Brig. Gen. George G. Meade

Brig. Gen. Sander Piatt

Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox

Brig. Gen. Philip Kearny

Brig. Gen. David B. Birney

Brig. Gen. John C. Robinson

Brig. Gen. Cuvier Grover

Brig. Gen. Nelson Taylor

Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter

Brig. Gen. George Sykes

Brig. Gen. Henry W. Slocum

Brig. Gen. Isaac I. Stevens

Brig. Gen. Truman Seymour

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Army of Virginia Order of Battle

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Army of the Potomac Order of Battle

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Union Official Records

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Boatner, Mark, M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1967. p 101-105

Catton, Bruce. The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1962. p 19-51

Commager, Henry Steele. The Blue and The Gray. New York: Fairfax Press, 1982. p 170-189

--------------------------------- The Civil War Archive History of the Civil War in Documents. New York: Tess Press, 1973. p 151-165

Cozzens, Peter and Robert I. Girardi. The New Annals of the Civil War.. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. p 113-120,

          121-161

Current, Richard N., ed. "Manassas Second." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. p 999-1003

Davis, Burke. Gray Fox Robert E. Lee and the Civil War. Short Hills, NJ: Burford Books, 1956. p 119-127

----------------- J.E.B. Stuart The Last Cavalier New York: Rinehart & Company, 1957. p 173-186

Dowdey, Clifford and Louis H. Manarin, Ed. The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. p

          223-270, 275-285

Editors of Time-Life Books. Lee Takes Command From Seven Days to Second Bull Run The Civil War Volume 16 of

          27. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1984. p 126-146, 160-167

Foote, Shelby. The Civil War A Narrative Fort Sumter to Perryville. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. p 621-627

Franklin, William B. "The Sixth Corps at the Second Bull Run." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel, Ed.

          Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I The Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National

          Historical Society, 2005. p 539-540

Hansen, Harry. The Civil War A History. New York: Signet Classic, 2002. p 210-225

Hennessy, Joseph A. Return to Bull Run The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Hotchkiss, Jed. Virginia. "Confederate Military History Volume III Part I." Atlanta: Confederate Publishing Co., 1899. Reprint:   

          National Historical Society. Weider History Group, 2008. p 315-334

Irwin, Richard B. "Washington under Banks." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel, Ed. Battles and Leaders

          of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I  The Century Co., 1884-1887. Reprint. National Historical Society,

          2005. p 497-500

Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippencott, 1895. rpt. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992.

          p 180-198

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Our March Against Pope." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel, Ed. Battles and

          Leaders of Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part II. New York: Century Co. 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society, 2005, p 512-526

Mason, W. Roy. "Marching on Masassas." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel, Ed. Battles and Leaders of

          Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part II. New York: Century Co. 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical Society, 2005, p

          528-529

McClellan, H. B. The Campaigns of Stuart's Cavalry. Secaucus, NJ: Blue & Grey Press, 1993. p 86-109

Pope, John. "The Second Battle of Bull Run." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel, Ed. Battles and Leaders

          of Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part II The Century Co. New York: Century Co. 1884-1889 National Historical

          Society, 2005. p 449-494

Redwood, Allen C. "Jackson's "Foot-Cavalry" at the Second Bull Run." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough

          Buel, Ed. Battles and Leaders of Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part II The Century Co. New York: Century Co.

          1884-1889 National Historical Society, 2005. p 530-538

Robertson, James I. Jr. Stonewall Jackson The Man, The Soldier, The Legend. New York: Simon, 1997. p 563-579

Sears, Stephen W. ed. The Civil War The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: Library of America, 2012. p

          391-398, 404-416, 425-427

Sneden, Robert Knox. Plan of the second Battle of Bull Run Va. Showing position of both armies at 7 p.m. 30th Aug. [to 1865,

          1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00099/>.

Sneden, Robert Knox. Second Battle of Bull Run sunset 5 p.m. Aug 30. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of

          Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00104/>.

Stanley, Steven. Battle Maps of the Civil War The Eastern Theater. Princeton, NJ: Knox Press, 2020. p 24-29

Swinton, William. Campaign of the Army of the Potomac. Secaucus, NJ: Blue & Grey Press, 1988. p 181-190

Taliaferro, W. B. "Jackson's Raid Around Pope.' Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel, Ed. Battles and

          Leaders of Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part II The Century Co. New York: Century Co. 1884-1889 National

          Historical Society, 2005. p 501-511

Thomas, Emory M. Bold Dragoon The Life of J.E.B. Stuart. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. p 151-158

Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964.

------------------- Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992

Wert, Jeffry D. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Biography of J.E.B. Stuart. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008 p 132-138

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