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the 35-mile Confederate block ade of the Potomac. He lookec across Northern Virginie toward Manassas but decidec that the fortifications aroilnd ii and Centreville were too power ful to attack with a green army.
He then looked upriver te Leesburg and decided that e reconnaissance in force across the Potomac at that locatior would move the Confederates from Leesburg thus breaking their defensive line along the Potomac between Northerr Virginia and Winchester.
At Poolesville Brigadiei General Charles P. Stone was given instructions that “per haps a small demonstration or your part would move then: from Leesburg” thus precipitat ing the Battle of Ball’s Bluff or October 21, 1861, exactly three months to the day after the Union debacle at Bull Run.
What followed that daj were a series of mistakes by e green Union army swiftlj taken advantage of by more experienced Confederate com manders.
Of the 1,720 Union soldiers in the fight, at the end of the battle some 921 of them were casualties including Sen. (Col. Edward D. Baker, Abraharr
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