Record Data(active tab)EventsPeoplePlacesDocumentsImages Record Data Place Unit Type County Containing Unit Virginia Events Date Type 10/21/1861 Future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes survives a near-fatal wound at Ball's Bluff Battles/Soldiers 06/17/1863 In Virginia, future founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra left for dead on the battlefield Battles/Soldiers 04/06/1862 Irving Carson, Chicago Tribune war correspondent, is killed on the first day of the Battle of Shiloh Battles/Soldiers 06/23/1863 L. Walter Buckingham, war reporter for the New York Herald, is killed in guerrilla attack in Virginia Battles/Soldiers 10/21/1861 Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac Battles/Soldiers People Birthplace of Broun, William LeRoy Carr, William Brown Chilton, Robert Hall Cockerill, Joseph Randolph Everhart, George Marlow Luckett, Leven William Potts, Jonas John Burial Place of Gray, William H. Places Name Type Aldie, VA City or Town Hamilton, VA City or Town Hillsboro, VA City or Town Leesburg, VA City or Town Middleburg, VA City or Town Documents Date Title 12/09/1856 Jacob Bigelow (William Penn) to William Still, December 9, 1856 10/23/1859 New York Herald, “The Slave Population in the Vicinity of the Outbreak,” October 23, 1859 Images Loudoun County, Virginia, 1857