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Mt. Olivet Cemetery -- Confederate Burial:
After the battle of Monocacy, Confederate soldiers buried their comrades in hastily dug graves.
A few years later, local citizens formed the Frederick County Confederate Memorial Association and moved the remains to Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick.
Judge Glenn H. Worthington witnessed the battle as a six-year-old boy and led the effort to preserve Monocacy as a National Battlefield Park.
"We are convinced that when this battle is studied from the viewpoint of saving the Capital of the nation from capture, together with the heads of government, and the treasure their collected, it will be accorded a place greater than Antietam, or Shiloh, or even Gettysburg itself... Monocacy should be recognized as one of the most important battles of the Civil War..."
-- Glenn H. Worthington, December 30, 1929
"The battle of Monocacy overshadowed by other less important events attending Early's raid against Washington; and so made less stir at the time and occupies much less space in history than it deserves. It was a stout and most creditable fight: and though a defeat in name and fact, it accomplished as much as many a victory, for it delayed Early's march upon Washington."
-- G.G. Benedict, Vermont in the Civil War |