Eastern Theater of The American Civil War - Northern Virginia and Maryland (1862)

Northern Virginia and Maryland (1862)

Northern Virginia
Campaign
  • Cedar Mountain
  • 1st Rappahannock Station
  • Manassas Station
  • Thoroughfare Gap
  • 2nd Bull Run
  • Chantilly
Maryland Campaign
  • Mile Hill
  • Harpers Ferry
  • South Mountain
  • Antietam
  • Shepherdstown
  • Unison

Following his success against McClellan on the Peninsula, Lee initiated two campaigns that can be considered one almost continuous offensive operation: defeating the second army that threatened Richmond and then continuing north on an invasion of Maryland.

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