Joseph Hooker works to reorganize and revitalize the demoralized Federal Army of the Potomac.

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Joseph Hooker works to reorganize and revitalize the demoralized Federal Army of the Potomac.
Federal troops arrest General Charles P. Stone in the early morning hours after new “evidence” surfaces confirming Stone’s disloyalty to the Union.
The Radical-dominated Joint Committee seeks to put the blame of the Ball’s Bluff disaster on the shoulders of Charles P. Stone, for both military and political reasons.
The Federal defeat at Ball’s Bluff outrages northerners, sends the Lincolns into mourning, and increases calls for an “all-out war” against the Confederacy.
Federal forces suffer another horrific defeat when they are driven off a cliff overlooking the Potomac River at Leesburg, Virginia.
Federal forces converge on an isolated Confederate unit at Leesburg, a Virginia town up the Potomac River from Washington.