A vicious fight in driving rain ends the Second Bull Run campaign with John Pope’s Federal Army of Virginia still intact but thoroughly defeated by Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
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The Seven Days’ Battles: Gaines’s Mill
Robert E. Lee launches another attack on the Federal right flank outside Richmond, which forces George B. McClellan to begin planning to withdraw southward to the James River.
The Battle of Williamsburg
Portions of the main armies on the Virginia Peninsula clash in a savage engagement that does little to change the dispositions of either Federals or Confederates.