Jackson's wing of the army, after passing…

August 1862 CE

Jackson's wing of the army, after passing around Pope's right flank via Thoroughfare Gap, had struck the Orange & Alexandria Railroad at Bristoe Station on the evening of August 26 and before daybreak August 27 marches to capture and destroy the massive Union supply depot at Manassas Junction.

This surprise movement forces Pope into an abrupt retreat from his defensive line along the Rappahannock.

On August 27, Jackson routs the New Jersey Brigade of the VI Corps near Bull Run Bridge, mortally wounding its commander George W. Taylor.

Major General Richard S. Ewell's Confederate division fights a brisk rearguard action against Major General Joseph Hooker's division at Kettle Run, resulting in about six hundred casualties.

Ewell holds back Union forces until dark.

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Manassas Prince William Virginia United States View →

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George W. Taylor View → John Pope View → Joseph Hooker View → Richard Stoddert Ewell View → Robert E. Lee View → Stonewall Jackson View →

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American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence) View → Eastern Theater of the American Civil War View → Northern Virginia Campaign View → Manassas Station Operations (Stonewall Jackson) View →

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