Never Such a Campaign
The Battle of Second Manassas, August 28-August 30, 1862
Published on 5. January 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-61121-641-7 (ISBN)
Description
July, 1862. General Robert E. Lee, now in command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, had driven back the massive Federal Army of the Potomac from the very gates of the Confederate capital. Richmond was safe - at least for the moment.
But soon, new threats emerged against Lee's army and the Confederate war effort in Virginia. Rumors swirled that a Federal command headed towards Fredericksburg, and a new Federal army, the Army of Virginia, under Maj. Gen. John Pope, was shifting operations towards Confederate communications and supply points.
Pope had come from the west, where he had scored successes along the Mississippi River. He brought with him a harder philosophy of war, one that would put pressure not just on Lee's army but on the population of Virginia itself.
Not only alarmed but also offended by "such a miscreant as Pope," Lee began moving his own forces. He intended to not just counter the new threat but to "suppress" it.
In Never Such a Campaign: The Battle of Second Manassas, August 28-30, 1862, historians Robert Orrison and Dan Welch follow Lee and Pope as they converge on ground once-bloodied just thirteen months earlier. Since then the armies had grown in size and efficiency, and combat between them would dwarf that first battle. For the second summer in a row, forces would clash on the plains of Manassas, and the results would be far more terrible.
But soon, new threats emerged against Lee's army and the Confederate war effort in Virginia. Rumors swirled that a Federal command headed towards Fredericksburg, and a new Federal army, the Army of Virginia, under Maj. Gen. John Pope, was shifting operations towards Confederate communications and supply points.
Pope had come from the west, where he had scored successes along the Mississippi River. He brought with him a harder philosophy of war, one that would put pressure not just on Lee's army but on the population of Virginia itself.
Not only alarmed but also offended by "such a miscreant as Pope," Lee began moving his own forces. He intended to not just counter the new threat but to "suppress" it.
In Never Such a Campaign: The Battle of Second Manassas, August 28-30, 1862, historians Robert Orrison and Dan Welch follow Lee and Pope as they converge on ground once-bloodied just thirteen months earlier. Since then the armies had grown in size and efficiency, and combat between them would dwarf that first battle. For the second summer in a row, forces would clash on the plains of Manassas, and the results would be far more terrible.
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Language
English
Place of publication
El Dorado Hills
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
75 images, 8 maps
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61121-641-7 (9781611216417)
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Welch Dan Welch | Pawlak Kevin R. Pawlak
Never Such a Campaign
The Battle of Second Manassas, August 28-August 30, 1862
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12/2023
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Rob Orrison received his Bachelor's Degree in Historic Preservation at Longwood College and received his Master's Degree in Public History from George Mason University. Rob serves as the Division Manager for the Office of Historic Preservation in Prince William County, VA (where the Manassas battlefield is located). Outside of work, he serves on the Board of Directors of Virginia Civil War Trails and the Virginia Association of Museums. His published works include: A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign; The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign 1863; In A Single Blow: The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Beginning of the American Revolution, April 19, 1775; To Hazard All: Guide to the 1862 Maryland Campaign. He is also co-founder of Emerging Revolutionary War. He currently lives in Dumfries, Virginia, with his wife, Jamie, and sons, Carter and Grayson. Dan Welch is an educator with a public school district in Ohio and seasonal Park Ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park. He received his BA in Instrumental Music Education from Youngstown State University and a MA in Military History with a Civil War Era concentration at American Military University. He is the co-author of The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863, and Ohio at Antietam: The Buckeye State's Sacrifice on America's Bloodiest Day. A contributing member at Emerging Civil War for more than seven years he is the co-editor of the first three volumes of ECW's 10th Anniversary Series. He now serves as associate editor of the renowned Gettysburg Magazine. He resides with his wife, Sarah, in Boardman, Ohio.