The river with many bends | p. 5 |
Grant's grand campaign to end the war | p. 13 |
Lee's "bad old man" | p. 23 |
A plan of great boldness | p. 33 |
Early's march to the Potomac | p. 47 |
Wallace at the bottom | p. 63 |
An invasion of a pretty formidable character | p. 73 |
The best little battle of the war | p. 85 |
The whiz of flying iron | p. 97 |
Short, decisive, and bloody | p. 111 |
Aftermath | p. 121 |
Great alarm in Baltimore and Washington | p. 133 |
Sunday, July 10 : a strange Sabbath Day | p. 145 |
Monday, July 11 : greatly in need of privates | p. 157 |
Monday, July 11 : a desperate engagement | p. 173 |
Heavens hung in black | p. 187 |
Scared as blue as hell's brimstone | p. 199 |
An egregious blunder | p. 205 |
The verdict | p. 211 |
Union order of battle : the battle of Monocacy, July 9,1864 | p. 237 |
Confederate order of battle : the battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864 | p. 239 |
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