Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History by Marc Leepson

Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History



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Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History Marc Leepson
Page: 320
ISBN: 9780312382230
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

The Battle of Monocacy, which took place on the blisteringly hot day of July 9, 1864, is one of the Civil War’s most significant yet little-known battles. What played out that day in the corn and wheat fields four miles south of Frederick, Maryland., was a full-field engagement between some 12,000 battle-hardened Confederate troops led by the controversial Jubal Anderson Early, and some 5,800 Union troops, many of them untested in battle, under the mercurial Lew Wallace, the future author of Ben-Hur. When the fighting ended, some 1,300 Union troops were dead, wounded or missing or had been taken prisoner, and Early—-who suffered some 800 casualties—-had routed Wallace in the ... MORE EBOOKS:
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