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Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops at Ball's Bluff in Loudoun County, Virginia, on October 21, 1861, in the second major battle of the war.
Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is also killed in the fighting.
The operation had been planned as a minor reconnaissance across the Potomac to establish whether the Confederates were occupying the strategically important position of Leesburg.
A false report of an unguarded Confederate camp encouraged Brigadier General Charles Pomeroy Stone to order a raid, which clashed with enemy forces.
A prominent U.S. Senator in uniform, Colonel Baker had tried to reinforce the Union troops, but failed to ensure that there were enough boats for the river crossings, which were then delayed.
Baker is killed, and a newly-arrived Confederate unit routs the rest of Stone’s expedition.
The Union losses, although modest by later standards, alarm Congress, which will set up the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, a body that will provoke years of bitter political infighting.
Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is also killed in the fighting.
The operation had been planned as a minor reconnaissance across the Potomac to establish whether the Confederates were occupying the strategically important position of Leesburg.
A false report of an unguarded Confederate camp encouraged Brigadier General Charles Pomeroy Stone to order a raid, which clashed with enemy forces.
A prominent U.S. Senator in uniform, Colonel Baker had tried to reinforce the Union troops, but failed to ensure that there were enough boats for the river crossings, which were then delayed.
Baker is killed, and a newly-arrived Confederate unit routs the rest of Stone’s expedition.
The Union losses, although modest by later standards, alarm Congress, which will set up the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, a body that will provoke years of bitter political infighting.
...Lee leads fifty-five thousand men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland, on September 4, initiating the Maryland Campaign and the battles of Harpers Ferry, South Mountain, and Antietam.