Battle of Chantilly Ox Hill |
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Fairfax County, Virginia
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Northern Virginia Campaign
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Inconclusive (tactical) Confederate victory (strategic)
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IX Corps, Army of the Potomac
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2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
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Making a wide flank march, Jackson hoped to cut off the Union retreat from Bull Run. On September 1, beyond Chantilly Plantation on the Little River Turnpike near Ox Hill, Jackson sent his divisions against two Union divisions under Kearny and Stevens. Confederate attacks were stopped by fierce fighting during a severe thunderstorm. Union generals Stevens and Kearny were both killed. Recognizing that his army was still in danger at Fairfax Courthouse, Maj. Gen. Pope ordered the retreat to continue to Washington. With Pope no longer a threat, Lee turned his army west and north to invade Maryland, initiating the Maryland Campaign and the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan assumed command of Union forces around Washington. (NPS summary)
Northern Virginia Campaign, August 1862 |
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Battles of the American Civil War: 1862 |
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| Eastern Theater | | | Western Theater | | | Trans-Mississippi Theater | | | Lower Seaboard Theater | |
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