Daily Archives: July 17, 2025

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Monocacy Unfolding

As the Battle of Monocacy loomed 161 years ago this week, the city of Washington panicked. One of the men in Wallace’s small army was Colonel William Seward, son of Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William Henry Seward, and the commander of the hard fighting Ninth New York Heavy Artillery. Seward’s […]