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Wikipedia Description: Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery
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Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery is a national cemetery, located in Ball's Bluff Battlefield Regional Park, two miles northeast of Leesburg, Virginia. The cemetery is the smallest national cemetery in the United States. 54 Union dead from the Battle of Ball's Bluff are interned in 25 graves in the half-acre cemetery. The identity of all of the interred except for one, James Allen of the 15 Mass. Infantry, are unknown. Monuments to Clinton Hatcher, CSA and General Edward Baker USA are located in the cemetery. The cemetery is managed through the Culpeper National Cemetery.

The land for the cemetery was donated in 1865.

Ball's Bluff National Cemetery is the only national cemetery in which the Flag of the United States is not regularly flown due to repeated acts of vandalism against the flag at the sight throughout its history.

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Battle of Ball's Bluff
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Ball's Bluff – Dranesville

The Battle of Ball's Bluff, also known as the Battle of Harrison’s Landing or the Battle of Leesburg, took place on October 21, 1861, in Loudoun County, Virginia, as part of Major General George B. McClellan's operations in northern Virginia during the American Civil War. It was the second largest battle of the Eastern Theater in 1861.

Background:

McClellan had recently been promoted to general-in-chief of all Union armies and, now, three months after the First Battle of Bull Run and after some considerable organizational activities and defensive preparations, he may have felt pressure from the Lincoln administration to take offensive military action. He chose to launch a reconnaissance in force in hopes of seizing Potomac River crossing sites and, ultimately, Leesburg, Virginia.

On October 19, 1861, McClellan ordered Brigadier General George A. McCall to march his division to Dranesville, Virginia, fourteen miles southeast of Lee ...More...
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