The Battle of Ball’s Bluff/Leesburg (Virginia): Colonel Nathan G. “Shanks” Evans, commanding the Seventh Brigade of the Confederate Army of the Potomac, defeats the Corps of Observation of the compulsory Union Army of the Potomac, commanded Brigadier General Charles P. Stone. Although outnumbered, the Union suffers more than six times as many casualties as does the Confederacy.
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William H. Seward, Secretary of State, orders Judge William M. Merrick, of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, placed under house arrest to prevent him from issuing anymore Writs of Habeas Corpus, in an effort the free the mushrooming population of Lincoln’s political prisoners.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 286.
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Lincoln Unmasked: What you are not supposed to know about dishonest Abe, (New York: Crown-Forum, 2006), 95.
“Sweltering with Treason” | National Archives
www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/summer/merrick.html
The Battle of Ball’s Bluff – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ball%27s_Bluff
Chronology Of The American Civil War
civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm
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