USS Monocacy
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Several ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Monocacy for the Battle of Monocacy
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, a gunboat launched in 1864, and served until 1903, commissioned in 1914 and decommissioned in 1939, originally the civilian tug Monocacy (1905)
Battle of Monocacy
The Battle of Monocacy was fought on July 9, 1864, just outside Frederick, Maryland, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864, in the American Civil War. Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early defeated Union forces under Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace...
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, a gunboat launched in 1864, and served until 1903, commissioned in 1914 and decommissioned in 1939, originally the civilian tug Monocacy (1905)