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Sir Winston Churchillvisited theBarbara Fritchie Housewhile en route withFranklin D. Rooseveltfrom "Shangri-la" to Washington, D.C.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GBQ_slave-to-soldier_Frederick-MD.html
On October 1, 1863, nine months after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton advised Lincoln that it was a "military necessity in the State of Maryland... for enlisting all persons capable of bearing arms... …
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On July 9, 1864, at 2:00 a.m., the last train of Union reinforcements pulled into Monocacy Junction just hours before the battle. The addition of 3,400 veterans increased Wallace's total to 6,600 men. While Wallace was successful in delaying the C…
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Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early drove Union Gen. David Hunter into West Virginia after the Battle of Lynchburg, Va., clearing the Shenandoah Valley of Federal forces. To draw Union troops from Petersburg, Early launched a raid on Washin…
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In June 1864, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Jubal A. Early corps from the Richmond battlefields to the Shenandoah Valley to counter Union Gen. David Hunter army. After driving Hunter into West Virginia, Early invaded Maryland …
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In the final months of his life Francis Scott Key enjoyed visits to Terra Rubra farm, his boyhood home not far from Frederick Town. He thought and wrote about the end of life and his hopes of immortality in a life to come.
Key died at his daughte…
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Front: The first ship of the fleet named for Francis Scott Key, Author of the National Anthem. Born 1 August 1773, Died 11 January 1843. Wrote the verse for our National Anthem "The Star Spangled Banner" during the British Fleet's bombardment of F…
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In June 1864, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee sent Gen. Jubal A. Early's corps from Richmond battlefields to the Shenandoah Valley to counter Union Gen. David Hunter's army. After driving Hunter into West Virginia, Early invaded Maryland …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19RX_fredericks-poet-lawyer_Frederick-MD.html
Born in what was then northeast Frederick County, Key's parents first brought him to "Frederick-Town" to be baptized. His parents often rode to the county seat here. Key walked these streets whenever the family came to Frederick.
After attendin…
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The building in front of you, Kemp Hall, was the capitol of Maryland during the spring and summer of 1861, as the state came perilously close to leaving the Union. Because secession would have placed the U.S. capital, Washington, D.C. between the …