Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Maryland” in page 271 of General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant:
...ad to be left temporarily without defense.
General Grant received the President's despatch at noon of August 4, and he left City Point that night for Hunter's headquarters at Monocacy Station in Maryland , reaching there the next evening, August 5.
He ordered all the troops in the vicinity to move that night to the valley of Virginia.
The general had now a delicate
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