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7:00 a.m., July 9, 1864
After skirmishing on July 8 with Confederates west of Frederick, MD, Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace's 5,800 Union troops—many of them "raw and untried"—took a stand at the Monocacy River. Wallace carefully chose this …
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7:00 a.m, July 9, 1864
Confederate troops under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early streamed through the gaps of South Mountain and the Catoctins and headed south past Frederick. Bound for Washington, D.C., they were stopped here at the Best family farm by…
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The Dentzel carousel came to the park in 1921 as a replacement for a smaller carousel. Built in the Philadelphia style, the hand-carved, wooden animals create a menagerie type featuring rabbits, ostriches, a giraffe, a lion, a tiger and a deer in …
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8:30 a.m. July 9, 1864
The John T. Best family was going about its chores of tending cows, hogs, chickens, and fields of wheat, oats, and corn. The Bests were used to working amid soldiers, for Union and Confederate troops had camped here on th…
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The Battle that saved WashingtonHere along the Monocacy River on July 9, 1864, was fought the battle between Union forces under General Lew Wallace and Confederate forces under General Jubal A. Early.
The battle, although a temporary victory f…
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and is in memory- of -The Southern Solderswho fell in the battlefought July 9, 1864which resulted ina Confederate victory———Erected July 9, 1914by the Fitzhugh Lee ChapterUnited Daughters of the Confederacyof Frederick, Maryland
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17R_major-general-george-gordon-meade_Frederick-MD.html
(Front Face): Took commandof the Army of the PotomacUnder orders fromPresident LincolnSeven hundred feetNorth of this markerJune 28, 1863He pursued the Confederatesand at Gettysburg July 1,2,3Fought the decisive battleof the Civil War
Marked by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17I_gettysburg-campaign_Frederick-MD.html
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north throug…
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Near this spot, on the grounds of Prospect Hall, Union Gen. George Gordon Meade replaced Gen. Joesph "Fighting Joe" Hooker as commander of the Army of the Potomac on Sunday, June 28, 1863. Meade took command reluctantly because he was concerned ab…
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Headquarters of Generals Robert E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, and Longstreet Sept. 6-9, 1862
Here was written the famous lost order No. 191 and the proclamation to the people of Maryland.