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ID: 901001465
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001465
Record Type: Event/Narrative

Second Battle of Bull Run (American Civil War, 1862)

Note: Second battle at a small stream named Bull Run, near Manassas in northern Virginia; both the First and Second battles gave military advantage to the Confederacy. Second battle was of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run fought on July 21, 1861 on the same ground. The strategic significance of the location lay in the fact that Manassas was an important railroad junction.

Display Date: 28-30 August, 1862

Names:
Second Battle of Bull Run (American Civil War, 1862) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
Second Battle of Manassas (American Civil War, 1862) (English,U,P)
Battle of Second Manassas (American Civil War, 1862) (English,U,P)
Second Manassas (American Civil War, 1862) (English,U,P)
Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va. (American Civil War, 1862) (English,U,P)

Hierarchical Position:
Named Events (P)
....<North and South American history> (P)
........<United States history> (P)
............American Civil War (American history, 1861-1865) (P)
................Second Battle of Bull Run (American Civil War, 1862) (P)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... battle
.....(armed conflicts, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
located in .... Manassas
.....(Manassas Indep. City, Virginia, United States, North and Central America) (TGN)
actor is .... Longstreet, James. (American Confederate general, 1821-1904)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
actor is .... Jackson, Stonewall (American Union general, 1824-1863)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:
Second Battle of Bull Run (American Civil War, 1862)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
Second Battle of Manassas (American Civil War, 1862)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Battle of Second Manassas (American Civil War, 1862)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Second Manassas (American Civil War, 1862)
................Civil War [online] (2000-)
Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va. (American Civil War, 1862)
................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 85017943
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................ Civil War [online] (2000-) http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/secondmanassas/maps/brawners-farm-map.html
................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Bull_Run#/media/File:Second_Battle_of_Bull_Run.jpg

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