Closeup of the tablet on the monument to the 10th Vermont Infantry Regiment on the Monocacy battlefield

 

This monument

was erected by the

State of Vermont

to designate the position of the

Tenth Vermont Infantry

during the battle fought here

on the ninth day of July 1864

to save Washington, "and we saved it."

Seven companies occupied the Washington

Pike, while three companies occupied

the Buckeystown

Road opposite the

Thomas House.

1915

Closeup of the tablet on the monument to the 10th Vermont Infantry Regiment on the Monocacy battlefield