Faces of Ball’s Bluff
They Perished in the Potomac Two German-born officers in the 20th Massachusetts Infantry died together in the Potomac. Alois Babo, a clerk who hailed from Rastatt in Baden
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Exhilaration and Anguish at Ball’s Bluff
By James A. Morgan and Ken Fleming The Battle of Ball’s Bluff was the result of a faulty reconnaissance report made by an inexperienced officer. On the evening Oct. 20,