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John Pope was a career United States Army officer and Union general during the American Civil War. He had early success in the Western Theater but is best remembered for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Virginia.
John Pope is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run, also called Second Manassas, in late August 1862. Confederate General Robert E. Lee split his army, and Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's flank attack routed Pope's Army of Virginia.
The Confederate garrison at Island No. 10 surrendered to John Pope's forces on the 7th of April 1862. The victory freed Union navigation of the Mississippi River as far south as Memphis.
John Pope was relieved of command on the 12th of September 1862 after his Army of Virginia was routed at Second Bull Run. He blamed the defeat on Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter, who was convicted by court-martial, though an 1879 Board of Inquiry later found Pope bore most of the responsibility.
John Pope commanded the Department of the Missouri, the nation's second-largest geographical command, from after the Civil War through 1883. He fought in the Apache Wars, including the Red River War that relocated Southern Plains tribes to reservations in Oklahoma, and also fought the Sioux.
John Pope died on the 23rd of September 1892 at the Ohio Soldiers' Home near Sandusky, Ohio. He was buried beside his wife, Clara Pope, in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.