Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . n. The Confederacy wasalso busy in recruiting and drilling its forces. Knowing that Richmond wasthe objective point of the Union advance, the city was surrounded with formid-able fortifications. DISASTER AT BALLs BLUFF. On the 19th of October General McCall was ordered to occupy Draines-ville, eighteen miles northwest of Washington. At the same time, GeneralStone was directed to keep watch of Leesburg, from which the patrols
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . n. The Confederacy wasalso busy in recruiting and drilling its forces. Knowing that Richmond wasthe objective point of the Union advance, the city was surrounded with formid-able fortifications. DISASTER AT BALLs BLUFF. On the 19th of October General McCall was ordered to occupy Draines-ville, eighteen miles northwest of Washington. At the same time, GeneralStone was directed to keep watch of Leesburg, from which the patrols afterwardreported a weak Confederate force. An advance was ordered, whereupon Col-onel Evans, who had given the Confederates great help at Bull Run, concen-trated his forces on the road leading from Leesburg to Washington, and, on themorning of the 21st, had assumed a strong position and was ready to beattacked. DISASTER AT BALLS BLUFF. 297 The Union troops were feiried across the river in three scows, two skiffs,and a life-boat, which combined wonkl not carry one-fourth of the men. AVhenall were over they advanced to Leesburg, where no Confederate camp was FORTIFYINO HICHMOND. In the foreground we see R. E. Lee and two other Confederate officers directing the work. but the enemy in the woods attacked them. Colonel E. D. Baker, a civilianofficer from California, hurried across the river with 1,900 men and took com-mand. The enemy was reinforced and drove the Unionists back. Colonel 298 OF LIXCOLX. Baker was killed and the Federals lied in a panic to the Potomac, with the Con-federates upon them. The fugitives swarmed into the boats and sank three ofthem ; others leaped over the bank and swam and dived for their lives, theenemy shooting and bayoneting all who did not surrender. When the horribleaffair was over, the Union loss was fully a thousand men. This occurrence wasin some respects more disgraceful than Bull Run. MILITARY OPERATIOXS IX MISSOUKI. Clai
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