Balls Bluff: A Small Battle and Its Long Shadow
by:
Byron Farwell (author)
On October 21, 1861, Confederate troops scored what was probably the most complete victory by either side in the Civil War at a place calle Ball's Bluff, thirty-five miles west of Washington, DC, on the Virginia bank of the Potomac River. Union soldiers were driven in a panic off the high...
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On October 21, 1861, Confederate troops scored what was probably the most complete victory by either side in the Civil War at a place calle Ball's Bluff, thirty-five miles west of Washington, DC, on the Virginia bank of the Potomac River. Union soldiers were driven in a panic off the high bluff into the river, where many of them drowned.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780939009367 (0939009366)
Publish date: October 28th 1990
Publisher: Howell Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
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