On June 19, 1863, Captain William W. Folwell and Company I, 50th New York Engineers were among a detachment of engineer troops at the Mouth of the Monocacy. Their original orders had them moving to Nolan’s Ferry with the intention of placing a bridge over the Potomac at that point. They had even conducted a leaders’Continue reading “The Folwell letters, June 20, 1863: “We make the river 1475 feet wide””