Battle_Of_Bull_Run

Battle Of Bull Run Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other in great numbers. As with any civil conflict, the war was marked with many decisive battles. One such battle was the Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as The Second Battle of Manassas. The Second Battle of Bull Run took place between August28 and August 30, 1862 in Virginia. Stonewall Jackson led 25,000 men on a fifty-six mile march around John Pope’s right flank. Jackson wanted to get Pope’s rail line to Washington and loot his supply depot at Manassas Junction. General Jackson seemed to disappear. It took them two days for Pope to find him. He was dug in on Stony Ridge, overlooking the same Bull Run battlefield where he had helped defeat the Union Army the year before. Announcing that he would now “bag the battle, second, run, bull, jackson, union, men, manassas, war, virginia, two, took, pope’s, pope, now, flank, five, first, decisive, between, august, army, year, wounded, wing, win, whole, washington, wanted, two-mile, times, time, throwing, thousand