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WHERE EARLY WAS DELAYEOnMONUMENT TO THE VALOR OF WALLACE S TROOPS UNVEILED.1Memorial Raised on the Monocacy Battlefield Where a Fierce Fight Occurred July 9, 1864.A monument was unveiled on the Monoracy battlefield, near Frederick. M(l.. yesterday as a memorial to t*‘ie 14th New Jersey Regiment of volunteer** who participated In the i stout resistance offered by the troops under (Jen. Lew Wallace, which resulted in the delay of the Confederate troops In their march on Washington, so that Federal troops were enabled to reach the capital and take part in its defense July lb 1S64. This was one of the historic battles of the civil war, though the importance has not been given to it that it deserves. The story of the fight was briefly told yesterday t j to about a thousand persons, who witnessed ri the ceremonies, by .V. ij. John C. Patterson,| presid* nt of the monument comniiss.on. Maj. Patterson sild:Stcry of the Fight.-On the night of July 6. 1W»4. we proceeded by a weary night march to City Point on the James river. Here we were placed 1 n transports and as fast as steam could cirry us we r- ached Baltimore, where we to» k cars for Monoc icy and came here.0:1 this ground we became part of the little army of Hen. Lew Wallace. ',44*1 strong, with one battery (Alexander's* of guns, and two or three odd pieces besides. We formed on the skirmish and in the single lines of battle.•'Our orders were to stop the advance of Gen. Early with his picked body of men, commanded by such able officers as Brcck-enri-Ige, Rhodes. Ramsner. Wharton, Evans, Rosser. Johns n and Gordon.We were greatly outnumbered, yet we took our position against an army known to be IS.oOO to 2T.000 strung, with forty pieces of artillery. We ik in numbers, we were reinforced with the thought that the hour for the destruction of our national capital was at hand.''Here lt;»n these fields, in the face of such great « dds. the brave men of (Jen. Wallace’s army fought with a courage and resistance rarely paralleled in the annals of war. From N o'clock in the morning, with the thermometer in the nineties, we fought them until 5 o'clock of that July day.At that hour Gen. Wallace ordered us to retire from the field, hut before we went we ha»l accomplished the purpose for which the brave non from Ohio, Pennsylvania. Maryland. Vermont. New York and New Jersey had been sacrificed. We had delayed Gen. Early In his march to Washington one day. How much this one day allowed to be done history will tell you.It will be remembered that the 6th Corps arrived In Washington Just as Early's ! * forces approached the city on the north. 1 where they were opposed by a slender force of home guards hastily gathered at Fort Stevens.t
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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Wed, Jul 10, 1907
Page 8
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Gettysburg C.
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