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Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas

"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

Subject
history
Genre
war and military
Themes
military history
Setting
civil warUSAvirginia
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 624 pages

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