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Second Manassas 1862 : Robert E. Lee's Greatest Victory (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
Second Manassas 1862 Robert E Lee's Greatest Victory - Praeger Illustrated Military History Author:John Langellier "There never was such a campaign, not even by Napoleon" wrote Confederate General Pender of the Second Manassas campaign in which the gray-bearded Virginian, Robert E Lee, came as close as he ever would to exterminating his Northern enemies. Second Manassas established Lee as the South's pre-eminent military commander and the Army of Northern Vi... more »rginia as its most powerful weapon. The fighting in northern Virginia left Union General John Pope's career in tatters and proved that the South was a power to be reckoned with.« less