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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGW_landon-house_Frederick-MD.html
Constructed in 1754 on the banks of the Rappahannock River in Virginia, this building was reconstructed here in 1846 and became Landon Female Academy. Early in September 1862, while infantry of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia rested…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5G_dennis-memorial_Frederick-MD.html
This boulder, taken from the bed of the improved Rt. 355 (formerly US Rte. 240) previously stood approximately 50 ft to the south at a point where the old Urbana Road/Georgetown Pike (now Araby Church Road) intersects the relocated improved highwa…