THE WORLD, New York, Oct. 31, 1861

• Battle of Ball's Bluff - Virginia
• Confederate - rebel victory

Among the front page column heads: "THE SOUTHERN REBELLION" "The Great Naval Expedition" "50 Vessels en Route for the South" "Gen. Stone's Report of the Battle of Ball's Bluff" "400 Missouri Rebels Lay Down their Arms" "THE BALL'S BLUFF DISASTER" "Gen. Stone's Official Report" and more.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, foxing & some damp staining, mild wear at the two folds.

Background: The 1861 Battle of Ball’s Bluff holds exceptional historical rarity and significance as the site where Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker was killed, making him the only sitting United States Senator ever to die in battle—a tragic distinction that deeply impacted his close personal friend, President Abraham Lincoln. Though relatively small in military scale compared to later clashes of the Civil War, the disastrous Union defeat produced outsized political ramifications; the bloody, chaotic retreat down a steep 100-foot cliff into the Potomac River ignited widespread public fury and directly led to Congress creating the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. This powerful Congressional body fundamentally reshaped Northern politics and military strategy throughout the war by aggressively investigating military setbacks and scrutinizing high-ranking generals, starting with the scapegoating and illegal six-month imprisonment of Union Commander Brig. Gen. Charles P. Stone in the battle's immediate aftermath.