Determined to Stand and Fight: The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864 (Ryan T. Quint - CWC) train station and landed safely on the

and landed safely on the other side with several feet to spare

ignores the experience of African Americans

where he witnessed the surrender

In the down-to-earth style he employs in his award winning and long running newspaper column "On My Mind

In May 1861

Determined to Stand and Fight: The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864 (Ryan T. Quint - CWC) train station and landed safely on theby Ryan T. Quint In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace prepared for a last ditch defense along the banks of the Monocacy River. Behind them, barely fifty miles away, lay the capital of the United States, open to attack. Facing Wallaces men were Lt. Gen. Jubal Earlys Confederates. In just under a month, they had cleared the Shenandoah Valley of Union soldiers and