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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18L_balls-bluff-overlook_Leesburg-VA.html
Ball's Bluff is a 600 yard long shale and sandstone cliff. It rises up a shallow bell curve from two ravines approximately 300 yards north and south of where you are standing. At this point, it is about 100 feet high, though just to the north (lef…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVV_the-tin-shop_Waterford-VA.html
15481 Second Street · Built 1875-1885 · Historic Use —Housed harness-making, tin roofing and tinware businesses; post office (1885-1897) · ?Current Use —Waterford Fair; office space
The Tin Shop is built over a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTU_campaign-of-second-manassas_Chantilly-VA.html
Stonewall Jackson, sent by Lee to move around Pope's retreating army at Centreville and cut if off from Alexandria, reached this place, August 31, 1862. Here Jackson turned east towards Fairfax.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTN_battle-of-balls-bluff-october-21-1861_Leesburg-VA.html
The Battle of Ball's Bluff was the result of a mistake. The previous evening, Capt. Chase Philbrick, Co. H, 15th Massachusetts, led a small reconnaissance patrol across the river to determine the results of some earlier Confederate troop movements…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTM_a-divided-america-a-divided-loudoun-county_Leesburg-VA.html
On April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort Sumter, America went to war with itself. Just as the country was divided, so were Virginia and Loudoun County. The western portion of Virginia became the separate state of West Virginia in 1863. Here in L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTD_thomas-clinton-lovett-hatcher_Leesburg-VA.html
20 December, 1839 - 21 October, 1861
Standing over 6'4" and wearing a full red beard, Clinton Hatcher was a memorable figure. Despite his Quaker upbringing, he joined Company F of the 8th Virginia at the beginning of the war and became the regi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTB_the-south-confederate-leaders-at-balls-bluff_Leesburg-VA.html
Colonel Nathan George "Shanks" EvansNathan 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 2n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT8_the-north-union-leaders-at-balls-bluff_Leesburg-VA.html
Brigadier General Charles Pomeroy StoneAs 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 30, 1824, in Gre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT7_edward-d-baker_Leesburg-VA.html
Colonel Baker is buried at the Presidio in San Francisco, California. This memorial stone was placed here to mark what was believed to be the location of Baker's death and to honor the memory of the only U.S. Senator to have died on the field of b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT6_balls-bluff-battlefield-and-national-cemetery_Leesburg-VA.html
Has been designated a
NationalHistoric Landmark
This site possesses national significancein commemorating the history of the United States of America
1984National Park ServiceUnited States Department of the Interior