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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 132 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 46 2 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 44 2 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 44 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 30 2 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 21 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 18 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 12 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 5 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative. You can also browse the collection for E. D. Baker or search for E. D. Baker in all documents.

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
's confidence. Compare McClellan's Own Story (p. 187) and Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (Century War Book), II, 131. It is now generally admitted that General Baker's inexperience was largely to blame for the defeat. Good descriptions of the battle may be found in the Comte de Paris, Civil War in America (translation), I, 417, and in Palfrey's Bartlett, 17. On the folly of Ball's Bluff, see Gordon's Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, 61, 64. General Baker's case is stated in Senator E. D. Baker's Defence at Ball's Bluff. troops were sent across a rapid stream and exposed to a greater force, without intrenchments and with the stream behind them, was a MSenator E. D. Baker's Defence at Ball's Bluff. troops were sent across a rapid stream and exposed to a greater force, without intrenchments and with the stream behind them, was a Massachusetts man and a regular army officer. So was Gen. Frederick W. Lander, who fell in the battle, and was the first of her general officers to die in the service,—as he had also been the first of all men, it was claimed, to offer his services to the general government. See his funeral sermon, by Rev. George W. Briggs, D. D.