Assessing the enemy: James Longstreet and John Pope at Second Bull Run

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dc.contributor.authorZander, Cecily Nelson
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-05T17:43:24Z
dc.date.available2024-02-05T17:43:24Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-29
dc.description.abstractUnion general John Pope’s decision-making during the campaign of Second Bull Run has been justly scrutinized by historians and armchair generals alike. In large part this scrutiny has stemmed from Pope’s bombast upon his arrival in Virginia and his failure to back up his “headquarters in the saddle,” “only seen the backs of our enemies,” proclamation with a substantial battlefield result. Pope’s contemporaries gleefully took part in lambasting the Illinois-born, West Point graduate—among them Edward Porter Alexander, who called Pope a “blatherskite” in his personal memoirs. The index to Alexander’s Fighting For the Confederacy (UNC Press, 1989) includes the entry “Pope, John; EPA makes fun of” as if to underscore the degree to which Pope was a common subject of ridicule after the summer of 1862.
dc.identifier.citationThis is the published version of a blog post that is available at https://emergingcivilwar.com/2020/08/29/assessing-the-enemy-james-longstreet-and-john-pope-at-second-bull-run/. Recommended citation: Zander, C. N. (2020, August 29). Assessing the enemy: James Longstreet and John Pope at Second Bull Run. Emerging Civil War. This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author’s permission.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11274/15670
dc.identifier.urihttps://emergingcivilwar.com/2020/08/29/assessing-the-enemy-james-longstreet-and-john-pope-at-second-bull-run/
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherEmerging Civil War
dc.subjectBattle of Second Bull Run
dc.subjectBattle of Second Manassas
dc.subjectJames Longstreet
dc.subjectJohn Pope
dc.subjectLeadership
dc.titleAssessing the enemy: James Longstreet and John Pope at Second Bull Run
dc.typeBlog Post

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