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es came from RCHS English teacher Melissa Delcour’s AP English class.
Most of her students know that Delcour is a passionate historian of the Civil War: She has worked for many years as a National Park Service historical interpreter at many Civil War battlefield sites in our area and she is a published author on Civil War topics. This sort of scholarly dedication has long inspired her students to take an interest in the issues and significance of the Civil War.
Renown Civil War historian Kim Holien, the speaker at the annual dinner, presented both essay winners with a copy of his book, “Battle at Balls Bluff,” with a word of encouragement for their writing prowess.
In his presentation on this little-known but far-reaching battle, Holien outlined many of the salient outcomes of the battle, in which an entrenched and experienced Confederate force nearly annihilated the inexperienced Union attackers along the shores of the Potomac near Leesburg. Of the 1,720 Union soldiers in the fight, at the end of the battle some 921 Union soldiers were casualties.
Early in the three-hour debacle, President Lincoln’s best friend from boyhood, Senator (Colonel) Edward D. Baker, was killed, the only standing U.S. Senator to be killed on active military service. He was killed by a lqfhe Confederate cavalry private who rode across the lines dressed in a bluish coat that made northern soldiers mistake him for one of their own. The private simply rode
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