Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly)

B-13

Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's wing of the Army of Northern Virginia reached here 1 Sept. 1862. Jackson's march from the battlefield of Second Manassas turned the position of Maj. Gen. John Pope's army at Centreville and threatened the Union line of retreat near Fairfax Court House. Here at Ox Hill, the Confederates encountered Federal troops of the IX and III Corps and a fierce battle was fought amid storm and darkness. Union generals Isaac Stevens and Philip Kearny were killed. Pope retreated to Alexandria and the defenses of Washington. Thus ended the Second Manassas campaign.

Department of Historic Resources, 2000

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Joseph L. Harsh, Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999); Edward J. Stackpole, From Cedar Mountain to Antietam (Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1993); Patricia L. Faust, ed., Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986); Fairfax County and the War Between the States (Vienna, Va.: Stenger Typographic Service, 1961).