Fighting for Time: The Battle of Monocacy
In the summer of 1864, General Jubal A. Early led about 15,000 Confederates on a daring sweep through Maryland to attack the Federal capital from the north. The savage battle proved to be one of the most decisive engagements of the Civil War. The hard-marching Confederate troops of General Jubal Early were embarked on a desperate gamble - an invasion of the North meant to take the pressure off Robert E. Lee's besieged forces at Petersburg. Early's goal was nothing less than the seat of the Federal Government, Washington, DC. Glenn Worthington, a youthful witness of the carnage at Monocacy, recounts in rich detail the see-saw fighting as lines of blue and gray swept across the rolling pastureland and wheatfields of central Maryland, each side knowing that their efforts would decide the fate of their cause. Replete with official reports of the engagement, and the anecdotal recollections and memoirs of participants, Fighting For Time vividly brings to life this fiercely fought soldier's battle, the Battle of Monocacy.  --Midwest Book Review