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<p>to The Victorious Confederates, It Was The Battle Of Leesburg. The Badly Beaten Federals Named It For The Imposing Fortress-like Rocky Precipice On The Northern Side Of The Potomac Near Washington Dc - Ball's Bluff. Fought Three Months To The Day After First Manassas (bull Run) And Another In A Long Line Of Federal Defeats During The First Year Of The War - The Battle Was, As Author James Morgan Puts It, A Reconnaissance Mission Gone Bad. Federal Commander Gen. Charles P. Stone Had Planned A Raid On A Suspected Rebel Camp, Precipitating A Skirmish Between Elements Of His Troops And Those Of Confederate Gen. Nathan Shanks Evans. As A Series Of Skirmishes Developed Into A Full-scale Brawl Involving Some 1700 Soldiers On Each Side, Careless And Costly Decisions By One Of Stone's Commanders, Col. Edward D. Baker, Led To Baker's Death And A Catastrophic Finish, As Hundreds Of Union Soldiers Fell Or Threw Themselves Off The Cliff. In The Ensuing Political Uproar In The North, Stone Became The Convenient Federal Scapegoat And His Career Was Destroyed. A Charter Member Of The Volunteer Ball's Bluff Guide Group, Morgan, A Former Marine, Began To Realize That The Conventional Battle Narra
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- Author
- Morgan (III), James
- Publisher
- Ironclad Publishing, LLC
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780967377049
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (51 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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