Pope renews his attacks on August 30,…
August 1862 CE
When massed Confederate artillery devastates a Union assault by Porter's corps, Longstreet's wing of twenty-eight thousand men counterattacks in the largest simultaneous mass assault of the war.
The Union left flank is crushed and the army driven back to Bull Run.
Only an effective Union rearguard action prevents a replay of the First Bull Run disaster.
Pope's retreat to Centreville is precipitous, nonetheless.