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Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery

Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery
Ball's Bluff National Cemetery.jpg
The circle of 25 graves at Ball's Bluff
Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery is located in Northern Virginia
Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery
Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery is located in Virginia
Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery
Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery is located in the US
Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery
Location Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
Nearest city Leesburg, Virginia
Coordinates 39°07′55″N 77°31′47″W / 39.13194°N 77.52972°W / 39.13194; -77.52972Coordinates: 39°07′55″N 77°31′47″W / 39.13194°N 77.52972°W / 39.13194; -77.52972
Area 76 acres (31 ha)
NRHP Reference # 84003880
VLR # 253-5021
Significant dates
Added to NRHP April 27, 1984
Designated NHLD April 27, 1984
Designated VLR October 16, 1984

Ball's Bluff Battlefield Regional Park and National Cemetery is a battlefield area and a United States National Cemetery, located 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Leesburg, Virginia. The cemetery is the third smallest national cemetery in the United States. Fifty-four Union Army dead from the Battle of Ball's Bluff are interred in 25 graves in the half-acre plot; the identity of all of the interred except for one, James Allen of the 15th Massachusetts, are unknown. Monuments to fallen Confederate Sergeant Clinton Hatcher and Union brigade commander Edward Dickinson Baker are located next to the cemetery, though neither is buried there. While the stone wall-enclosed cemetery itself is managed through the Culpeper National Cemetery and owned by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the balance of the 223-acre (0.90 km2) park is managed through the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.

The Battle of Ball's Bluff was a small but consequential defeat for the Union early in the American Civil War, occurring just months after the Union Army's rout after the First Battle of Bull Run and another embarrassing loss at Battle of Wilson's Creek in the Western Theater. The Union defeat at Ball's Bluff revealed something to the public about the political nature of Union appointments of officers and their occasional incompetence, and led directly to the creation of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.


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