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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KL_mccauslands-attack_Frederick-MD.html
11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. July 9, 1864
Brig. Gen. John McCausland's cavalry brigade forded the river, dismounted, and advanced up the slope toward the Worthington house. Thinking they would be facing inexperienced militiamen, the Confederates form…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KK_gordons-decisive-attack_Frederick-MD.html
3:00-4:30 p.m. July 9, 1864
So profuse was the flow of blood from the killed and wounded of both sides of these forces that it reddened the stream [on the Thomas Farm] for more than 100 yards below.Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon
The first Confeder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KJ_thick-of-the-battle_Frederick-MD.html
4:00 - 4:30 p.m. July 9, 1864
The Battle of Monocacy changed from a stalemate to a rout as the final lines of Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon's three Confederate brigades swept down Brooks Hill onto the fields of Thomas farm. Both sides traded blister…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KI_thomas-farm_Frederick-MD.html
Col. C. Keefer Thomas, a businessman, should have stayed in Baltimore. He was so sure a war eventually would rage around that city that he moved his family to this 240-acre farm, called Araby. Soon troops were marching through or camping here in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KG_federal-retreat_Frederick-MD.html
The Northerners held, then lost, then retook the Thomas house grounds as the fighting ebbed and flowed in the stifling heat. Casualties mounted quickly on both sides. Union Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace could see that his numbers were dwindling and that t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KF_gambrill-house_Frederick-MD.html
James H. Gambrill prospered as a miller after the Civil War, and the family moved up in the world - from a modest dwelling on the lowlands near the mill to this 17-room house on the hill. The three-story frame structure, built about 1872, has mans…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KE_brush-creek-crossing_Frederick-MD.html
A wagon road crossed Brush Creek at this location connecting the Georgetown Pike with roads to Baltimore. As Federal troops withdrew from the battlefield, they passed Gambrill's Mill and followed this road toward Baltimore, leaving the field to th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KD_fleeing-for-their-lives_Frederick-MD.html
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. July 9, 1864
Distressed that their main escape route had been burned, the stranded Federal skirmishers fought on as they faced periodic Confederate attacks. Late in the afternoon, they gradually fell back towards the Balti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KC_burning-of-the-bridge_Frederick-MD.html
12:00 noon July 9, 1864
Confederates wearing captured blue uniforms had killed or wounded several Union skirmishers who had been sent across the Monocacy River to hold the Georgetown Turnpike and B&O Railroad bridges "at all hazards."
The tw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K4_gambrill-mill_Frederick-MD.html
Mill owner James H. Gambrill used his wits to survive the turmoil. A Southern sympathizer, he sold flour to Northern troops as they set up their line of defense on his land. During the battle he took refuge inside the mill with Samuel S. Thomas an…