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Chantilly, battle of
On the morning after the second battle at Bull Run Pope was joined at Centreville by the corps of Franklin and Sumner.
The next day (Sept. 1, 1862), Lee, not disposed to make a direct attack upon the Nationals, sent Jackson on another flanking movement, the latter taking with him his own and Ewell's divis prepared to meet this movement.
Heintzelman and Hooker were ordered to different points, and just before sunset Reno met Jackson's advance (Ewell and Hill) near Chantilly.
A cold and drenching rain was falling, but it did not prevent an immediate engagement.
Very soon McDowell, Hooker, and Kearny came to Reno's assistance.
A ve the Army of Virginia was merged into the Army of the Potomac, and General Pope returned to service in the West.
The loss of Pope's army, from Cedar Mountain to Chantilly, in killed, wounded, prisoners, and missing, was estimated at 30,000.
Lee's losses during the same time amounted to about 15,000.
He claimed to have taken 7,00
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee , Richard Henry 1732 -1794 (search)
Reno, Jesse Lee 1823-
Military officer; born in Wheeling, W. Va., June 20, 1823; graduated at West Point in 1846.
He served through the war with Mexico, and was severely wounded in the battle of Chapultepec; was appointed Professor of Mathematics at West Point in 1849; chief of ordnance in the Utah expedition of 1857-59.
He took part in the attack on Fort Bartow and the battles of Newbern, Camden, Manassas, and Chantilly.
At the battle of South Mountain he commanded the 9th Corps, and while leading an assault was killed Sept. 14, 1862.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stoneman , George 1822 -1894 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ward , John Henry Hobart 1823 - (search)
Ward, John Henry Hobart 1823-
Military officer; born in New York City, June 17, 1823; was educated at Trinity School; served in the Mexican War as sergeantmajor; was assistant commissary-general of the State of New York in 1851-55; and commissary-general in 1855-59; went into, the Civil War as colonel of the 38th New York Volunteers, and led his regiment at both battles of Bull Run, in all the battles of the Peninsular campaign, and at Chantilly; promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, and commanded a brigade in the 3d Corps, at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness.
Spottsylvania. Kelly's Ford, and Wapping Heights.
After the war he engaged in civil employment in New York City.