After crossing the Potomac just outside Leesburg VA, we visited this lesser known Civil War site.
It was the scene of a decisive Union defeat in October of 1861. The regional park does a nice job of preserving the site of this conflict. To find this wooded park you drive through a nice surburban neighborhood and take a spur off the culdesac, a beautiful buffer between the houses & the river.
This gate is to the National Cemetery where 54 soldiers (53 unknown identity) were buried in 1865.

www.nvrpa.org/park/ball_s_bluff
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ball's_Bluff

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the picture below shows the headstone of the only known soldier buried here
the rest all say unknown

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this haunting poem sits at the gate to the cemetery

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