Hey everyone, welcome to the 180th episode of our Civil War podcast.

My name is Rich. And I'm Tracy. Hello, y'all. Thanks for tuning into the podcast.

Previously on the show, as y'all recall, we wrapped up our look at the action at the second

Battle of Manassas. And we also took a quick look at what happened at the subsequent clash

at Chantilly, where the federal's lost two promising generals, Isaac Stevens and Phil

Karney. And now with this episode, we want to continue talking about what happened in

the aftermath of Second Manassas. First of all, a couple of you asked us about the breakdown

of casualties at the Battle, which we were a little vague about. But that's because for

the three days of the Battle, it's a bit hard to pin down exact numbers. In his book,

Return to Bull Run, John Hennessy mentions 3000 dead and 15,000 wounded on the battlefield.

And other sources cite total losses of 16,000 for the federal's and 9,200 for the Confederates.

We did find a couple of sources that got a bit more specific. In David Eikers book,

The Longest Night, a military history of the Civil War, he says that about 75,000 federal

soldiers took part in the campaign, while Lee fielded around 48,500 men. And then over

the course of the campaign, the federal's lost 1,724 killed, 8,372 wounded, and a whopping

5,958 missing. Confederate losses were 1,481 killed, 7,627 wounded, and just 89 missing.

It's worth noting that the 2nd Minasus campaign was Robert E. Lee's first full campaign

in command of the army of Northern Virginia. Well, that is, if you consider the 7 days

as part of the peninsula campaign, and Lee, of course, had taken command in the midst

of the peninsula campaign after Joe Johnston was wounded at 7 pines. But at any rate,

Lee have seen in the 2nd Minasus campaign the most brilliant combination of strategy

and tactics that Lee would ever achieve. Lee very quickly recognized the opportunity

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