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3 unusual facts about Second Battle of Bull Run


Asaph Hall

In this article Hall reported the results of an experiment in random sampling that Hall had persuaded his friend, Captain O.C. Fox, to perform when Fox was recuperating from a wound received at the Second Battle of Bull Run.

Second Battle of Bull Run

King was not with his division because he had suffered a serious epileptic attack earlier that day.

Virginia State Route 234

SR 234 heads north from I-66 as a four-lane divided highway that reduces to two lanes at the entrance to the Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College and enters Manassas National Battlefield Park, site of the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.


Charles E. Hazlett

He was part of the battery during its near annihilation at the First Battle of Bull Run, fought through the battles of the Peninsula Campaign and was in command of the battery by the Second Battle of Bull Run.

Marshfield, Massachusetts

Fletcher Webster, son of Daniel Webster; gave his life for the Union in the Second Battle of Bull Run


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Irvin McDowell

In 1879, when a Board of Review commissioned by President Rutherford B. Hayes issued its report recommending a pardon for Fitz John Porter, it attributed much of the loss of the Second Battle of Bull Run to McDowell.