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Loudoun County Landmarks
Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery
Waterford
Loudoun County
Virginia
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.