"This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. Lee s triumph over Union leader John Pope in the summer of 1862. . . . Lee s strategic skills, and the capabilities of his principal subordinates James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson, brought the Confederates onto the field of Second Manassas at the right places and times against a Union army that knew how to fight, but not yet how to win." Publishers Weekly

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"You will find me very much changed in everything but outside appearance when I come home". So Corporal Thomas H. Mann (1843-1916) warned his parents toward the end of the Civil War. A native of North Wrentham (now Norfolk), Massachusetts, Mann was a member of Company I of the Eighteenth Massachusetts regiment -- part of the heralded Army of the Potomac -- and saw action in many of the most pivotal and bloody battles of the war, including Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness. In his memoir, written in the late nineteenth century and...

Unmatched in its description of the battle's tactics and actual fighting.--Ethan Rafuse, author of McClellan's WarOn July 21, 1861, near a Virginia railroad junction twenty-five miles from Washington, DC, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in the first major battle of the Civil War. This revised edition of Hennessy's classic is the premier tactical account of First Manassas/Bull Run. Combines narrative, analysis, and interpretation into a clear, easy-to-follow account of the battle's unfolding Features commanders who would later become legendary, such as William T. Sherman and Thomas J....