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Book SynopsisThe Maps of Second Bull Run: An Atlas of the Second Bull Run/Manassas Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia Through the Battle of Chantilly, June 26 September 1, 1862, continues Bradley M. Gottfried's efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War's Eastern Theater. This is his tenth book in the ongoing Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series.President Abraham Lincoln's frustration with George B. McClellan's inability to defeat Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and capture Richmond dramatically increased after the unsuccessful Seven Days' Battles. The president combined three small armies into the new Army of Virginia and placed it under Maj. Gen. John Pope, who had overseen several successes in the Western Theater.Pope's growing aggressiveness, combined with McClellan's passive posture on the Peninsula, forced Lee to turn his attention toward the new threat from the north. Thomas Stonewall Jackson moved his wing of the Army of Northern Virginia
