Federal cavalry intercepts a Confederate detachment that had just finished raiding through Maryland and Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Philip Sheridan takes command of Federals in the Valley and starts planning to take on Jubal Early’s Confederates.
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Federal cavalry intercepts a Confederate detachment that had just finished raiding through Maryland and Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Philip Sheridan takes command of Federals in the Valley and starts planning to take on Jubal Early’s Confederates.
Federals fall back after yet another defeat in the Shenandoah Valley. Confederates invade the north once more and destroy a Pennsylvania town. Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln develop a plan to stop them.
A makeshift Federal force hurries to Monocacy Junction to block Jubal Early’s Confederate Army of the Valley as it marches toward Washington.
Jubal Early’s Confederate army advances through Maryland to threaten Washington, D.C., in an effort to divert Federal forces from besieging Petersburg. Panic spreads through Washington as reinforcements hurry to defend the city, and a makeshift Federal army awaits Early at the Monocacy River.