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BATTLE OF BALL'S BLUFF

The Battle of Ball's Bluff was an ambush by Confederate forces during the American Civil War that took place at Ball's Bluff, Virginia on October 22nd 1861 in which a force of some 1900 soldiers of General George Brinton McClellan's Army led by Colonel Devens and Colonel Baker were set upon from the cover of woods by Confederate soldiers and were completely routed or killed in hand-to-hand fighting, among the casualties being Colonel Baker.
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