Early’s Raid and the Battle of Monocacy

March 8, 2012 By crossroads

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Confederate soldiers under General Jubal Early pillaging a Hagerstown depot during their excursion into Maryland in 1864 (Harper's Weekly, July 30, 1864; NPS History Collection)

Confederates taking flour from a Maryland mill (Harpers Weekly, July 30, 1864; NPS History Collection)

Earlys soldiers destroying the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Harper's Weekly, July 30, 1864; NPS History Collection)

The Georgetown Pike covered bridge over the Monocacy River as it looked in September 1862 (Francis H. Schell, artist; courtesy of the Becker Collection, Boston, MA)

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge at Monocacy Junction after it was destroyed by Confederates in September 1862 (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 4, 1862; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge at Monocacy Junction as it looked in 1863 (Alfred R. Waud, artist; a version of this originally published in Harper's Weekly, August 15, 1863; Library of Congress)

Destruction of the railroad bridge over the Monocacy River by the Confederates on July 9, 1864 (Alfred R. Waud, artist; Library of Congress)

The Monocacy battlefield on the night of July 9, 1864 (Demerest's New-York Illustrated News, July 30, 1864; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

General Jubal Early, commander of the Confederate forces at the Battle of Monocacy (Library of Congress)

General Lew Wallace, commander of the Union forces at the Battle of Monocacy (Library of Congress)

Confederates raiding the town of New Windsor, MD, on July 10, 1864 (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 3, 1864; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Confederate soldiers and their plunder from Maryland farms during the invasion of 1864 (Paul F. Mottelay and T. Campbell-Copeland, eds. Frank Leslie's The Soldier in Our Civil War Vol. II (New York: Stanley Bradley Publishing Co., 1893), 302-303; originally published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 30, 1864)

General Jubal Early's forces retreating across the Potomac River (Harper's Weekly, July 30, 1864; NPS History Collection)

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Maryland and the Border
in the Civil War

Early’s Raid and the Battle of Monocacy

Special Collections

Maryland and the Border in the Civil War

Early’s Raid and the Battle of Monocacy

Special Collections

Maryland and the Border
in the Civil War