Nearly every Civil War buff has heard of the Battle of Chantilly, the 1862 struggle fought in a rainstorm only twenty miles from Washington that claimed the lives of two of the Union's most promising generals. Yet few are familiar with the full story of courage and human struggle contained in this fight because no one has ever produced a lively and historically accurate account of the battle -- until now.Tempest at Ox Hill tells the exciting story of this small but important battle of the American Civil War. The Union army faced annihilation after Robert E. Lee's overwhelming victory at Second Bull Run. A small Union rearguard faced down some of Lee's best generals in a driving rain at Chantilly, Virginia, on September 1, 1862. The retreating main Union army, and Washington, were saved, but at the cost of numerous casualties including two generals, the promising Isaac Stevens and the dashing Philip Kearny, a Mexican War veteran who had also served with the Chasseurs d'Afrique and Napoleon Ill's Imperial Guard. Around these two Union generals lay nearly 1,200 American soldiers, clad in both blue and gray, who gave their all for their chosen cause.