Northern Virginia campaign
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The Northern Virginia Campaign, also known as the Second Bull Run Campaign or Second Manassas Campaign, was a series of battles fought in Virginia during August and September 1862 in the Eastern Theat
John Pope and Robert E. Lee, commanding generals of the northern Virginia campaign
Recovering a locomotive wrecked in a Confederate raid
Union soldiers at the Orange & Alexandria Railroad
Maryland campaign
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The Maryland campaign occurred September 4–20, 1862, during the American Civil War. The campaign was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the Union. It was repulsed by the Army of the
Northern Virginia campaign
…threat and McClellan reorganizing his command, Lee turned his army north on September 4 to cross the Potomac River and invade Maryland, initiating the Maryland campaign and the battles of Harpers Ferry, South Mountain, and Antietam. The Bull Run battlefields are preserved by the National Park Service in Manassas National…
Union General George B. McClellan and Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the principal commanders of the campaign
Northern Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania (1861–1865)
Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin (VI Corps)
Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside (IX Corps)