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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KW_monocacy-battlefield_Frederick-MD.html
has been designated aNational Historic LandmarkThis site possesses national significancein commemorating the history of theUnited States of America1973National Parks ServiceUnited States Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KU_the-battle-that-saved-washington_Frederick-MD.html
The Battle of Monocacy took place on July 9, 1864, in the valley before you. The battle pitted North against South, and Washington, D.C., was the prize.
Richmond and Petersburg were endangered, but the Southern leader, General Robert E. Lee had…
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John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized Barbara Fritchie and the town of Frederick in his poem about the elderly Frederick resident who supposedly displayed the Union flag as Southern soldiers marched by on September 10, 1862.
On July 9, 1864, Con…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KQ_history-of-the-monocacy-river-valley_Frederick-MD.html
The earliest inhabitants of the Monocacy River Valley lived here about 12,000 years ago. These Native Americans lived in territorial, semi-nomadic groups dependent upon hunting, fishing, and food gathering.
When European settlers first came to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KO_worthington-mckinney-ford_Frederick-MD.html
11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. July 9, 1864
Confederate troops succeeded in finding their way across the Monocacy River at the foot of this hill. Brig. Gen. John McCausland's 350 cavalrymen came up over the hill and assembled on the front yard of the Wor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KM_worthington-house_Frederick-MD.html
Fields of wheat and corn surrounded the hilltop farmhouse of John T. Worthington. Few trees obstructed his views of the meandering Monocacy River and Thomas farm to the east. In the two years since buying the 300-acre farm, Worthington had seen Fe…
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…
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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…