for McDowell to advance on Manassas before his troops were ready. He sent part of his force against Blackburn’s Ford along Bull Run and then a few days later made his main attack. While his plan was smart, it was too much for them to accomplish. Four days after the rout McClellan was placed over McDowell, who a few months later was promoted to the command of division. When the Army of the Potomac was organized into Corps he became head of the 1st Corps which was left behind to guard the approaches of Washington when McClellan moved to the Peninsula. His command was reassigned to the Department of Rappahannock and was supposed to march overland to join McClellan but the activities of Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley came before this. When John Pope was brought East to the newly constituted Army of Virginia, but the previously independent commands of McDowell, John C. Fremont, and Nathaniel P. Banks and McDowell was given the command of Corps. Even though his actions at Cedar Mountain earned him the regular army Brevet of Major General in 1865 he already had his second star in the volunteer service he was blamed for the 2nd disaster at Bull Run. He was requested a court of inquiry, a

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