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At Ball’s Bluff, near this town on the threshold of Virginia and the Confederacy, the invading army of the North was utterly defeated on Oct. 21st 1861 and driven into the Potomac. The dead honored here were remembered as having died in defense of the Lost Cause, including unknown Confederate dead who lie near this place, noble sons of Loudoun who fell and were left on the battlefield. The soldiers whose memory was to be perpetuated were attached chiefly to the 8th and 17th Virginia Infantry, Loudoun Artillery, White’s 42nd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, Mosby’s 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, and the 13th, 17th, 18th, and 21st Mississippi Infantry.

Leesburg, Virginia · United States