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...