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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References:
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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