Manassas Station Operations

For other military operations around Manassas, Virginia, see Battle of Bull Run.
Manassas Station Operations
Part of the American Civil War

Train derailed by Confederate cavalry on August 26, 1862, during the Manassas Station Operations.
DateAugust 25, 1862 (1862-08-25) – August 27, 1862 (1862-08-27)
Location
Prince William County, Virginia
Result Confederate victory
Belligerents
 United States  Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
George W. Taylor †
Joseph Hooker		 Stonewall Jackson
Richard S. Ewell
Units involved
Detachments, Army of Virginia Left Wing, Army of Northern Virginia
Casualties and losses
400-450[1][i] 173[2]

The Manassas Station Operations included the operations known as Bristoe Station, Kettle Run, Bull Run Bridge, or Union Mills. It took place August 25–27, 1862, in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the Northern Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War.

On the evening of August 26, after passing around Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's right flank via Thoroughfare Gap, Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's wing of the army struck the Orange & Alexandria Railroad at Bristoe Station and before daybreak August 27 marched to capture and destroy the massive Union supply depot at Manassas Junction. This surprise movement forced Pope's Army of Virginia into an abrupt retreat from his defensive line along the Rappahannock River.

On August 27, Jackson routed a Union brigade near Union Mills (Bull Run Bridge), inflicting several hundred casualties and mortally wounding Union Brig. Gen. George W. Taylor. Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Confederate division fought a brisk rearguard action against Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Union division at Kettle Run, resulting in about 600 casualties. Ewell held back Union forces until dark. That night, Jackson marched his divisions north to the Bull Run battlefield, where he took position behind an unfinished railroad grade.[3]

  1. ^ Cheeks (2000), p. 55; Naisawald (2002), pp. 64, 69.
  2. ^ Hennessy (1993), p. 115; Naisawald (2002), p. 69.
  3. ^ NPS CWSAC Report Update Operations, VA.


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