Susan Stevens (left) and Amy Ulland The Union Ball By Meredith Bean McMath and Brian Boucher   Based on a true story from Taylorstown, Virginia, The Union Ball was created for The Loudoun Museum's "Road To Antietam" living history weekend in Leesburg, Virginia (1995). During this 30-minute production, members of The Loudoun Rangers (the only Union troop ever formed in Virginia) hold a dance rudely interrupted by Confederate cavalry soldiers of the 35th Battalion. As the Confderates take prisoners, Molly Anderson runs to the Confederate Lieutentant, throws her arms about his neck, and begins to beg him not to send her brother to prison.  Deeply affected by the display, the Lieutenant promised to give her brother parole on one condition: that Molly dance the next sette with him. The Confederates then took partners and proceeded to dance. Events are taken directly from an account of the ball written by Loudoun Ranger Briscoe Goodhart in his biographical history, The Loudoun Rangers (The Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg).  The production ends as the Confederates leave, and two young men, enraged by what they've seen, vow to sign up with The Loudoun Rangers the very next day.   Thirty-minute presentation includes live music and 35 costumed performers. For further information and availability, contact Meredith Bean McMath.