The Second Manassas Campaign

“"A welcome new volume that offers a detailed exploration of a crucial moment in American history.”—Library Journal, STARRED review

“This well-chosen and written series of essays brings new light to this often overlooked campaign and shows that this was not a side-show of the Eastern Theater, but a critical battle in its own right."—New York Journal of Books

“A most welcome addition to the historiography of a battle and campaign too long overlooked and understudied. Bringing light to subjects like logistics and emancipation that have largely escaped previous studies about the campaign only shows us how much there is still to learn.”—Emerging Civil War

“It’s a pretty tired reviewing cliche to say that an essay collection offers ‘something for everyone,’ but this volume’s strong addressing of a wide range of subjects, and this series as a whole, really does achieve that type of impact better than most others.”—Civil War Books and Authors

“The Second Manassas Campaign is a good primer on emergent scholarship about a little-understood campaign. . . . [T]his volume will be extremely useful to Civil War military historians.”—North Carolina Historical Review

“Brings together top-notch talent to retell the history of one of the war’s least understood campaigns. It offers new and intriguing insights into the fighting of summer 1862. . . . [A]n array of cutting-edge scholarship and new perspectives.”—Civil War Monitor’s Best Civil War Books of 2025

“The Second Manassas Campaign takes its place on a growing shelf of books about this pivotal operation while making still another salient contribution to a legendary series. It whets the appetite for a forthcoming volume of essays on the first clash behind the steep banks of Bull Run.”—Civil War Monitor

“A welcome new volume that offers a detailed exploration of a crucial moment in American history.”—Library Journal, starred review

“Brings together top-notch talent to retell the history of one of the war’s least understood campaigns. It offers new and intriguing insights into the fighting of summer 1862. . . . [A]n array of cutting-edge scholarship.”—Civil War Monitor

“It’s a tired reviewing cliché to say that an essay collection offers 'something for everyone,' but this volume’s strong addressing of a wide range of subjects really does achieve that type of impact better than most others.”—Civil War Books and Authors