Tempest at Ox Hill

The full story of the bloody Civil War battle that saved the Union capital is told with vivid detail in this riveting combat chronicle. Every Civil War buff has heard of the engagement that took place during a driving rainstorm on September 1st, 1862, only twenty miles from Washington. Yet few know the full story of courage and human drama that unfolded during the Battle of Chantilly.Tempest at Ox Hillcompellingly evokes this pivotal battle of the war, in which the Union army faced annihilation after Robert E. Lees overwhelming victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run. At Chantilly, Virginia, a small Union rearguard faced down some of Lees best generals. The retreating main Union army was saved, along with Washingtonbut at a frightening human cost. Most notable among those lost were General Isaac Stevens and General Philip Kearny, a Mexican War veteran who had also served with Napoleon IIIs imperial guard. But around these two Union generals lay nearly twelve hundred other American soldiers, both blue and gray.Tempest at Ox Hillcaptures their story on that fateful and devastating day.