Summer lightning : a guide to the second Battle of Manassas / Matt Spruill III and Matt Spruill IV.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spruill, Matt.

Contributor:

Spruill, Matt, IV.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862.

Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From August 28 to August 30, 1862, Union and Confederate armies fought for the second time on the Manassas, Virginia, battlefield. The Battle of Second Manassas, or Second Bull Run, was the culmination of General Robert E. Lee's campaign after the Seven Days to shift the fighting from the vicinity of Richmond to northern Virginia. Lee's victory placed him in a position to carry the war north of the Potomac River and set the stage for the Maryland Campaign of 1862. Summer Lightning is a battlefield guide that sequentially follows the fighting from Brawner's Farm on August 28 to the final Confederate attacks against Union positions at Henry Hill on August 30. Summer Lightning uses a series of twenty "stops" with multiple positions to guide the reader through the battlefield and to positions and routes used by both armies, thus providing a "you are there" view of the engagement. With easy-to-follow directions, detailed tactical maps, extensive eyewitness accounts, and editorial analysis, the reader is transported to the center of the action. A detailed order of battle for both armies is provided, as well as information on important sites away from the main battlefield.

Contents:

Prelude: Maneuvering to Battle

Thursday, August 28, 1862

Friday, August 29, 1862

Saturday, August 30, 1862

The Aftermath

Appendix I: Union Order of Battle

Appendix II: Confederate Order of Battle

Appendix III: Casualties

Appendix IV: August 30, 1862, South Flank Cavalry Engagement

Appendix V: The Stone Bridge

Appendix VI: August 28, 1862, Thoroughfare Gap.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).

ISBN:

9781621901440

1621901440

9781621900269

1621900266

OCLC:

892483427