{"id":823,"date":"2015-07-25T19:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2015-07-25T19:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T19:55:53","slug":"balls-bluff-marker-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"Ball&#8217;s Bluff marker replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-824\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/103-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/103-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/103-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/103-624x480.jpg 624w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/103.jpg 1780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight months after the theft of a roadside historical marker commemorating the Battle of Ball\u2019s Bluff in Leesburg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/private-organization-raises-money-to-replace-civil-war-historical-marker\/2015\/07\/24\/219df7b6-3175-11e5-97ae-30a30cca95d7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>a new marker has been erected in its place<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 people gathered July 18 for the unveiling and dedication of the replacement marker. Positioned on the Route\u00a015 Bypass, just north of Battlefield Parkway, it gives a brief description of the Oct. 21, 1861, Civil War battle that was waged along the Potomac River, less than a mile away.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/private-organization-raises-money-to-replace-civil-war-historical-marker\/2015\/07\/24\/219df7b6-3175-11e5-97ae-30a30cca95d7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, July 24, 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-825\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/202-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/202-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/202-1024x603.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/202-624x368.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight months after the theft of a roadside historical marker commemorating the Battle of Ball\u2019s Bluff in Leesburg, a new marker has been erected in its place. More than 100 people gathered July 18 for the unveiling and dedication of the replacement marker. Positioned on the Route\u00a015 Bypass, just north of Battlefield Parkway, it gives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=823\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ball&#8217;s Bluff marker replaced&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,14,3,68,129,111],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-history","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county","tag-nonprofit","tag-tourism","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}