. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... e of the forces which wereat his disposal Repulse of the Union Forces. He endeavored to repair his error by at-tacking Jackson at once. He did attackthat general in his new position late in theafternoon of the twenty-eighth, but was re-pulsed with severe loss. On the same after-noon General Lee with Longstreets corpsforced the passage of Thoroughfare Gap, andbivouacked that night in the open countrybeyond it. On the morning of the twenty- ninth he pushed for
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... e of the forces which wereat his disposal Repulse of the Union Forces. He endeavored to repair his error by at-tacking Jackson at once. He did attackthat general in his new position late in theafternoon of the twenty-eighth, but was re-pulsed with severe loss. On the same after-noon General Lee with Longstreets corpsforced the passage of Thoroughfare Gap, andbivouacked that night in the open countrybeyond it. On the morning of the twenty- ninth he pushed forward with speed, and bynoon his advanced division reached Jack-sons position. By four oclock in the after-noon the Confederate army was reunitedunder the command of General Lee. Aboutthree oclock in the afternoon General Popedetermined to attack upon Lees position,but was repulsed. On the thirtieth, having reunited all thecorps of his army, General Pope determinedto risk the fate of the campaign upon a de-cisive engagement. The Confederates helda large part of the old battlefield of BullRun, and the conflict which ensued is usually. PHILIP KEARNEY. known as the second battle of Bull Run. Itresulted in the defeat of General Pope, whowas driven back to the heights of Centre-ville with heavy loss. On the thirty-firstJackson attacked the Federal rear-guard atChantilly. A spirited encounter took place,and the Federal troops were slowly forcedback, losing General Phil Kearney, one ofthe most accomplished officers in the Pope now withdrew his army withinthe lines of Washington. He had lost since the opening of thecampaign over thirty thousand men, includ-ing eight generals killed, thirty pieces ofartillery, over twenty thousand stand ot 7i6 THE CIVIL WAR. arms, and an enormous quantity of Confederate loss was nine thousand onehundred and twelve, including five defeat of the Union army and thepresence of the Confederates on the Pot
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