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This was Second Manassas (Second Bull Run) in August 1862.

Lee had to act quickly to defeat one part of the Union army, under Pope, before McLellan's larger army was able to reinforce it.

His diversionary tactics were entirely successful, and the Union troops were totally routed.

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Robert E Lee's Confederate Army of Virginia defeated the Army of the Potomac. The Confederates were entrenched and massacred George McClellens army.

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