Loudoun County, VA

Place Unit Type
County
Containing Unit
Virginia
Date Type
Future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes survives a near-fatal wound at Ball's Bluff Battles/Soldiers
In Virginia, future founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra left for dead on the battlefield Battles/Soldiers
Irving Carson, Chicago Tribune war correspondent, is killed on the first day of the Battle of Shiloh Battles/Soldiers
L. Walter Buckingham, war reporter for the New York Herald, is killed in guerrilla attack in Virginia Battles/Soldiers
Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac Battles/Soldiers
Birthplace of
Burial Place of
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
Date Title
Jacob Bigelow (William Penn) to William Still, December 9, 1856
New York Herald, “The Slave Population in the Vicinity of the Outbreak,” October 23, 1859
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