Sometimes we lose in order to win.
This was very much the case with the Battle of Monocacy, fought just outside Frederick, Maryland on July 9, 1864. The Union soldiers went down in defeat, but they accomplished a bigger
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Worthington House, Courtesy of Monocacy Battlefield[/caption]
goal — they saved Washington.
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