Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery
two miles (3 km) northeast of Leesburg
Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia
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The Battle of Ball's Bluff, on October 21, 1861, was a small but embarrassing defeat for the Union early in the American Civil War. The land for a cemetery was donated in 1865. It is the smallest national cemetery in the United States.
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