Today Confederate General Jubal Early and the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, having raided several towns in Maryland, approach Fort Stevens just to the northwest of Washington, D.C. Early had hoped to make a surprise invasion of Washington, but had been detained too long in the previous day’s Battle of Monocacy to…
While Washington D.C. is alarmed at the news of a possible Confederate invasion (which comes of naught in the days ahead), further to the north this month the pastor of the Hanson Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York composes a song that will be long remembered. Robert Lowry (1826-1899) is a Philadelphia native who…
Today Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early’s 14,000-strong force is en route to what is to be a bold, and hopefully surprise, invasion of Washington, D.C. Fortunately for the Union, the Rebels are intercepted east of Frederick, Maryland by a Union force led by Major General Lew Wallace and numbering about 5,800. The clash becomes…