Posted on 07/10/2024 6:07:10 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
WASHINGTON, Saturday, July 8.
To Maj.-Gen. Dix:
An official report from Maj.-Gen. WALLACE, just received, states that a battle took place between the forces under his command and the rebel forces at Monocacy to-day, commencing at 9 o'clock A.M. and continued until 5 P.M.; that our forces were at length overpowered by the superior numbers of the enemy and were forced to retreat in disorder
He reports that Col. SEWARD, of the New-York Heavy Artillery, was wounded and taken prisoner, and that Brig.-Gen. TYLER was also taken prisoner; that the enemy's forces numbered at least twenty thousand, and that our troops behaved well, but suffered severe loss.
He is retreating to Baltimore.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War
REPORTS FROM BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Saturday, July 9 -- 3:30 P.M.
Our forces have evacuated Frederick and fallen back in this direction, and now occupy a position south of the Monocacy.
The rebels occupy Frederick, but in what force is not positively known. Reports say 12,000, and that they are under the command of Gen. BRECKINRIDGE.
There are reports, seemingly well founded, that another rebel force has crossed the Potomac, near Edward's Ferry, and have moved in the direction of Urbana -- in what force is not known. This is supposed to be an effort to flank us.
We are hourly gaining strength by reinforcements, and will doubtless frustrate this rebel movement.
SECOND DISPATCH.
BALTIMORE, Saturday, July 9 -- 9 P.M.
It may without exaggeration be said to-day that we are having something of an excitement.
All day the streets have been teeming with rumors from the front.
In the city, active arrangements are being made in anticipation of an emergency, which it is confidently believed is only barely possible, not probable.
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If the Battle of the Monocacy were refought today, the federals would win easily because the confederates making the decisive flanking attack would be massacred by high speed traffic on I-270. Think of an interstate highway at Gettysburg running across the field of Pickett’s Charge where the Emmitsburg Road/Business 15 lies today.
The modern U.S. 15 bypass has pulled most of the traffic off the old road. The bypass, unfortunately, still runs across battlefield ground, though it is outside the existing park boundary. It makes the East Cavalry Field feel like the other side of the moon because you have to detour through town to the Hanover or York Roads to get there, instead of following the Union cavalry screen from Wolf Hill out to the Low Dutch Road. Most freepers can picture the view from Cemetery Hill down to Big and Little Roundtop. Many of us have walked it. The distance from Culps Hill to the East Cavalry Field is comparable, but Wolf Hill screens the view and the bypass severs any organic connection.
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