1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper HUGE POSTER MAP POTOMAC MARYLAND Battle of Ball's Bluff

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1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper with a HUGE front-page POSTER MAP of the POTOMAC RIVER,  Washington DC Maryland, and Virginia as the seat of the violent CIVIL WAR ACTION. Also on the front page is a long and detailed stacked-headline report on the
BATTLE OF BALL'S BLUFF
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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
_New York Herald_
(NY) dated October 23, 1861, 1861, with incredibly displayable CIVIL WAR history!
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The Battle of Ball's Bluff in Loudoun County, Virginia on October 21, 1861, was one of the early battles of the American Civil War, where Union Army forces under Major General George B. McClellan, suffered a humiliating defeat.
The operation was planned as a minor reconnaissance across the Potomac to establish whether the Confederates were occupying the strategically important position of Leesburg. A false report of an unguarded Confederate camp encouraged Brigadier General Charles Pomeroy Stone to order a raid, which clashed with enemy forces. A prominent U.S. Senator in uniform, Colonel Edward Baker, tried to reinforce the Union troops, but failed to ensure that there were enough boats for the river crossings, which were then delayed. Baker was killed, and a newly-arrived Confederate unit routed the rest of Stone’s expedition.
The Union losses, although modest by later standards, alarmed Congress, which set-up the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, a body which would provoke years of bitter political infighting.
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