Results for The Bluff
The South: Confederate Leaders at Ball’s Bluff
Colonel Nathan George “Shanks” Evans
Nathan Evans wa...
The North: Union Leaders at Ball's Bluff
Brigadier General Charles Pomeroy Stone
As the overa...
The Battle at Ball’s Bluff
On the night of October 20, 1861, a small Federal scouting...
Father Hennepin Bluffs
This was the site from which Father Louis Hennepin, the Fr...
Results for The Bluff
The South: Confederate Leaders at Ball’s Bluff
Colonel Nathan George “Shanks” Evans
Nathan Evans was born in South Carolina in 1824. An 1848 West Point graduate, he was jokingly nicknamed “Shanks” by his classmates because he was knock-kneed. During the next decade he fought Indians with the 2nd ...
The North: Union Leaders at Ball's Bluff
Brigadier General Charles Pomeroy Stone
As the overall commander of Union forces at Ball’s Bluff, Stone was a rising star in the Union army at the time of the battle. He become the scapegoat for the defeat. Stone was born September ...
The Battle at Ball’s Bluff
On the night of October 20, 1861, a small Federal scouting party crossed the Potomac River from Maryland to determine whether recent troop movements indicated a Confederate withdrawal from Leesburg. Advancing inland from Ball’s Bluff, the Federals moved past this ...
Father Hennepin Bluffs
This was the site from which Father Louis Hennepin, the Franciscan Priest, first viewed the Falls of St. Anthony in June of 1680. He named the falls after his patron saint St. Anthony of Padua.
The famous waterfall was responsible for ...