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farmers of German, Quaker and ScotchIrish
decent in northern Loudoun did not
want anything to do with slavery and the
Confederate States of America (CSA). They
were not alone. Leesburg's John Janney, who
tried to get the 1831 General Assembly to
abolish slavery in Virginia, voted originally
against seceding at the Commonwealth's
Secession Convention in 1861. He wrote
to his wife, " I have used every faculty that
I possess to prevent this catastrophe. ... "
Soon after the secession vote, Virginia's
1. Lucketts bluegrass band. 2. Lucketts
bluegrass. 3. The Vineyards and Winery at Lost
Creek. 4. Leesburg's John Janney in 1831 tried
to get the General Assembly to abolish slavery
in Virginia and originally voted against seceding
from the Union. 5. Confederate seizure of the
Point of Rocks Bridge. 6. Lucketts bluegrass
singers. 7. The house, lake and vines of
Winery 32, another one of the many wineries
and breweries in the county.
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northwestern section broke away from the
Old Dominion and joined the Union as the
West Virginia territory. That move put Union
land on three sides of Loudoun and made
Lucketts and the northern outcrop a gateway
for both the Confederate and Union armies.
A gateway event occurred in August 1861
when a Loudoun native led a Union
detachment over the Point of Rocks bridge.
They surprised and killed a 14-year-old
Confederate soldier - the first Loudoun
CSA soldier to die on Loudoun County soil.
The Confederates burned the bridge later
that day and buried the boy in Lucketts.
Two months later, the Union blundered at
Ball's Bluff, south of Lucketts. U.S. Gen.
George McClellan ordered federal troops to
cross the Potomac River to test the CSA
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Army's defense of Leesburg. When the Virginia
Infantry spied the approaching troops they
" double-quicked to the woods skirting Ball's
Bluff, and formed in line of battle " and took
on the federals, according to Tom Richards,
a Confederate soldier. In the afternoon the
Virginians attacked, but this time with help
from a large Mississippi regiment. " We went
at them with a yell, " Richards wrote.
As bullets flew, Union soldiers fled down
the steep bluff to jump into boats.
Overcrowded boats capsized. Drowned
bodies floated downstream to the horror of
Washingtonians. One of the 223 federals
killed was Col. Edward D. Baker, a U.S.
senator from Oregon and friend of President
Abraham Lincoln. Baker is the sole U.S.
senator to die in battle.
In June 1862, about 200 loyalists formed
the Loudoun Rangers - the only organized
group of Union combatants in Virginia.
Subsequently, CSA Gen. J.E.B. Stuart allowed
Captain John S. Mosby to form his own
group of independent rangers on Dec. 30,
1862. Mosby, a brilliant 29-year-old lawyer,
channeled military tactics he had studied of
Francis Marion, the American Revolution's
" Swamp Fox. " Soon, Mosby's Rangers fought
the Loudoun Rangers and attacked Union
outposts, supply wagons and railroad
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