page_title: Charles Ball
section_title: Honors
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Ball / Honors
caption_attribution_description: English: The “Undaunted in Battle” memorial to the Battle of Bladensburg, designed and sculpted by Joanna Blake, was dedicated at Bladensburg, Maryland, Aug. 23, 2014. The monument features a bronze sculpture of the end of the battle. It depicts a wounded Commodore Joshua Barney, commander of the Chesapeake Flotilla, Charles Ball, a freed slave and flotilla man, and an unnamed Marine, in honor of the Marines who fought to the bitter end trying to repel British forces.
context_page_description: Charles Ball was an enslaved African-American from Maryland, best known for his account as a fugitive slave, The Life and Adventures of Charles Ball and having served in the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla of the U.S. Navy under the command of Commodore Joshua Barney in the War of 1812.
context_section_description: Flotillaman Ball is one of three sailors depicted on the Battle of Bladensburg Monument, at Bladensburg, Maryland.
caption: U.S. Navy Honor Guard salute during August 23, 2014 dedication of the official Battle Of Bladensburg Memorial by the State of Maryland showing the bronze relief sculpture of an unidentified U.S. marine, a wounded Commodore Joshua Barney, and Charles Ball the sailor (on the right) rallying around a cannon in the American forces' last stand against the British advance.
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