History
Learn more about the Battle of Monocacy
- Read a description of the Battle of Monocacy and then
- Test your knowledge.
Study the maps
- Battle of Monocacy - July 9, 1864
- Early's Route from Richmond to Washington
- Auto Tour, locates the monuments
If buildings could speak, what would these structures say about July 9, 1864?
- Gambrill's Mill was used as a hospital during the battle.
- Best Farm sheltered troops from both sides throughtout the Civil War.
- Thomas Farm was the scene of the heaviest fighting during the Battle of Monocacy.
- Worthington Farm was used by Gen Breckinridge to view the latter phase of the battle.
Discover which units fought at Monocacy
Nearly 24,000 troops converged on Monocacy Junction. Meet a few of them:
- General Lew Wallace was the Union commander during the Battle of Monocacy.
- General Jubal Early commanded the Confederate troops.
- General Gordon, wounded five times at Antietam, commanded the Confederate forces engaged in the heaviest fighting at the Battle of Monocacy.
- Lt. George Davis and Corp. Alexander Scott both won the Medal of Honor for valor at the Battle of Monocacy.
