The stone observatory on the Bloody lane is now finished and ready for visitors. The view from this point alone is worth a visit to the famous Bloody lane as you can take in the entire right to the left nearly four miles. There will be, when all planted, nearly four hundred markers, giving one a good idea of the entire battle field with the advantage of the good roads. Every body ought to visit it and make a study of this great battle.
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Our War Correspondence. ———————– From the Chaplain of the Regiment. ———————– Washington City, July 26, 1861. The telegraph before this reaches you, no doubt, will flash before a sadden people the list of our killed and wounded, in the never to be forgotten conflict of last Sunday. Every one feels that bad generalship was displayed […]
Our War Correspondence. ———————– March To the Battle Field – The Battle – Dreadful Scenes – Behavior of Col. Gorman and Lieut. Col. Miller – Defence of the Regiment, &c. &c. ———————– From our Regular Correspondent. Camp Gorman, Alexandria, July 23, 1861. I returned here last night with sore feet, lame limbs, wet through, indescribably […]
Michael Somerville is an English military historian whose doctoral thesis at the University of Buckingham looked at the influence of the American Civil War on the Victorian British Army. The end result of that work has been published by Helion & Company as Bull Run to Boer War: How the American Civil War Changed the […]
A note about historic preservation on my final day at Monocacy.
Ranger Mannie
The Junior Ranger program is one of the best ideas that the Park Service ever had. It's a great, and fun, way to get kids engaged in their park, and it makes their tax-paying parents really appreciate the parks.
I swore these four fun-lovers in as Monocacy Jr. Rangers last weekend...boy, were they in to it.
Ranger Mannie
I swore these four fun-lovers in as Monocacy Jr. Rangers last weekend...boy, were they in to it.
Ranger Mannie
From the Daily Freeman. The Vermont 2d at Bull Run. ———————– The Vermont Second were on the left wing, which brought us directly opposite a portion of the enemy’s line stationed behind a fence; but in about ten minutes we had the pleasure of seeing their line give away, and they fled to the woods. […]
The clock is ticking on the murals, I'm about seventy percent done and I have exactly four and a half days to complete them, fortunately, ranger Anthony has been a great apprentice in this project.
I can't believe how fast the time has flown; I've enjoyed this detail so much. This sixty-day detail to Monocacy National Battlefield was the most satisfying and affirming experience of my fourteen-year career in the National Park Service.
Ranger Mannie
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