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At the Second Battle of Bull Run ( Second Manassas ), Stuart's cavalry followed the massive assault by Longstreet's infantry against Pope's army, protecting its flank with artillery batteries.

Stuart ordered Brig.

Gen. Beverly Robertson's brigade to pursue the Federals and in a sharp fight against Brig.

Gen. John Buford's brigade, Col. Thomas T. Munford's 2nd Virginia Cavalry was overwhelmed until Stuart sent in two more regiments as reinforcements.

Buford's men, many of whom were new to combat, retreated across Lewis's Ford and Stuart's troopers captured over 300 of them.

Stuart's men harassed the retreating Union columns until the campaign ended at the Battle of Chantilly.