The Monocacy Legacy

About the Book

After its victory at the Monocacy River in Maryland on July 9, 1864, Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Early’s “Army of the Valley” marched upon Washington, D.C. Three days later, President Abraham Lincoln is killed at Fort Stevens, one of the forts in Washington’s defense perimeter, while watching a skirmish between Early’s Confederates and Union defenders of the city. Lincoln’s death four months before the presidential election in November causes numerous political and military crises for his successor, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. Could the Civil War have ended this way? If it had, what would America be like today?

About the Author

John Crouch’s fascination with the Civil War began at an early age. A native of Greenville, Mississippi, most of his youth was spent in New Orleans, Louisiana, a city that revered Southern heritage and heroism. After obtaining undergraduate and graduate degrees in aerospace engineering, he was a member of the Project Apollo and Skylab teams. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Mississippi in 1975. His subsequent legal career has primarily been as a corporate lawyer. Now retired, he and his wife Ann (Andy) live in Long Beach, Mississippi. They have three children and three grandchildren.