150th Anniversary Battle of Monocacy/Frederick Junction

Union Commander was  Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace having 5,800 soldiers begining of battle, only to have 1,294 of those soldiers killed, wounded and captured.  Confederate commander was Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early  who had 14,000 soldiers at begining of battle, and among them 700-900 were killed or wounded.

 

The Battle of Monocacy/Frederick Junction was fought on July 9, 1864.  The battle, labeled "The Battle That Saved Washington" was one of the last the Confederates would carry out in Union territory.

 

After marching north through the Shenandoah Valley from Lynchburg, the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early side-stepped the Federal garrison at Harpers Ferry and crossed the Potomac River at Shepherdstown into Maryland on July 5-6. On July 9, 1864, a makeshift Union force under Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace attempted to arrest Early’s invading Confederate divisions along the Monocacy River, just east of Frederick.

 

The two opposing leaders were Gen. Jubal Early, fighting for the South and Gen. Lew Wallace, fighting for the North.  In the aftermath of July 9, by late afternoon the federals, following the northern most Confederate victory of the war, retreated toward Baltimore, leaving behind over 1,294 dead, wounded, and captured.

 

Early's army had won the field of Monocacy, but at the expense of 700-900 killed and wounded.