Ball's Bluff - An Episode and Its Consequences to Some of Us #260640

This subject, like many of the periods of the Civil War, has been often described, and is familiar to the passing generation, but has, I believe, never before been placed upon your records nor by an eye witness. Therefore, I venture to present it here. The Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, in which I had the honor to be a First Lieutenant and Adju tant, left Boston in the Autumn of 1861, for active service with the army.