Desperate Engagement

This Civil War history offers a “sharp assessment of the single Confederate victory north of the Mason-Dixon line”—and the threat it posed to the capitol ( Kirkus ). The Battle of Monocacy is one of the Civil War’s most significant yet little-known battles. On July 9, 1864, in the fields just south of Frederick, Maryland, some 12,000 Confederate troops led by the controversial Jubal Anderson Early were met by a much smaller and untested Union force under the mercurial Lew Wallace, the future aut