First Battle of Rappahannock Station
The First Battle of Rappahannock Station, as took place on August 23, 1862, at present-day Remington, Virginia, as part of the Northern Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War.
Union pickets at Rappahannock Station, Virginia photographed here in August 1862 will be driven away by Confederates under James Longstreet
Union troops crossing the Rappahannock near Sulphur Springs
Union forces retreat from Rappahannock Station
John Pope was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He had a brief stint in the Western Theater, but he is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the East.
Brig. Gen. John Pope
Major General John Pope
Defeat of Pope's army in the Second Battle of Bull Run, by Alfred Waud