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Excerpt from Early's Great Raid: He Advances Through Maryland, Battle of Monocacy; The Union Forces Under Gen. Lew Wallace Stubbornly Contest the Field Against Overpowering Numbers; Wallace Retreats There seemed to be no point where an attack could be made that was not taken advantage of by the rebels, and defended with equal promptness by the union forces. As soon as the a1 tillery opened on our Headquarters, near the railroad bridge, a body of 1ebel sharpshooters who had taken possession of Best s barn, on the west side of the Georgetown Turnpike, began to pick off our skirmishers de fending the railroad, from the railroad station to the turnpike at the Y. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.