{"id":1544,"date":"2010-06-02T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T20:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2010-07-21T21:08:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T02:08:41","slug":"the-battle-of-monocacy-july-9-1864","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/06\/02\/the-battle-of-monocacy-july-9-1864\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Monocacy- July 9, 1864"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Battle of Monocacy on July 9, 1864 in Frederick County, Maryland became known as \u201cThe battle that saved Washington\u201d as it gave supporting Union troops more time to fill the area and defend the Capital.\u00a0 The National Park Service \u2019s <\/a>website provides resources including a short summary of the battle and a map<\/a> that shows the location of the battle as well as a detailed overview regarding the preservation of the site.\u00a0 The Confederate forces were led by Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early<\/a> whose memoir<\/a> provides an interesting account of the battle from the Confederate perspective.\u00a0 Major General Lew Wallace<\/a> (who later on became better known as the author of the novel Ben Hur<\/em>) and the Union forces attempted to arrest Early and the Confederate forces, but were defeated.\u00a0 General Ulysses S. Grant <\/a>highlighted the importance of the battle\u00a0through an excerpt from his memoir<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Early had been but one day earlier, he might have entered the Capital before the arrival of the reinforcements I had sent.\u00a0 Whether the delay caused by the battle [Monocacy] amounted to a day or not, General Wallace, on this occasion, by the defeat of the troops under him, contributed to a greater benefit to the cause than often falls to the lot of a commander of an equal force to render by means of a victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are several other interesting books which could be valuable to learning about the Battle of Monocacy from both the Union and Confederate perspectives.\u00a0 Along with Early\u2019s memoir, John H. Worsham\u2019s One of Jackson\u2019s Foot Cavalry: His Experience and What He Saw During the War 1861-1865 <\/a><\/em>provides a valuable first hand narrative of the author\u2019s experience as a Confederate soldier who fought in the Battle of Monocacy.\u00a0 Also, The Land We Love, Volume II<\/a><\/em> is available in full view on Google Books and contains Confederate General Gordon\u2019s report on the battle which may be worthwhile to look at as it also contains reports and correspondence between other Confederate officials. \u00a0Since the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission <\/a>has made the preservation of the Monocacy National Battlefield\u00a0 one of its top priorities the park holds over one thousand acres and five walking trails which could provide for an interesting field trip<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Battle of Monocacy on July 9, 1864 in Frederick County, Maryland became known as \u201cThe battle that saved Washington\u201d as it gave supporting Union troops more time to fill the area and defend the Capital.\u00a0 The National Park Service \u2019s website provides resources including a short summary of the battle and a map that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,156,12,47,173],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-images","category-maps","category-places-to-visit","category-rare-books","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}