Congressional Oversight Rum Amok: Ball's Bluff and the Ruination of Charles Stone

Abstract

The battlefield at Ball's Bluff, Virginia, is today little more than a modest monument, a few grave markers, and a low stone wall. Even Civil War specialists are hard-pressed to offer more than superficial details of this minor engagement, which took place some 30 miles upstream from Washington on the Potomac River. This battle is well worth remembering, however, for it served as the catalyst for one of the most extraordinary examples of congressional oversight ever, oversight that ruined the career of a Union general whose crime was that he did not hate the South enough.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA515724

Entities

People

  • James T. Currie

Organizations

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil War
  • Congress
  • Court Martial
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Information Operations
  • Military Operations
  • New York
  • Political Science
  • Potomac River
  • President (United States)
  • Prisoners Of War
  • Rivers
  • United States
  • Virginia
  • War
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.