erected in honor of those who died in the battle.) Battlefield preservation The battlefield remained in private hands for more than one hundred years before portions of it were acquired in the late 1970s to create the Monocacy National Battlefield. The park was dedicated in July 1991. Five monuments were erected at the site, including tributes to Union troops from New Jersey, Vermont, and Pennsylvania, as well as to the Confederate force who fought in the battle. The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its partners have acquired and preserved 445 acres of the Monocacy battlefield. In popular culture The American independent film, No Retreat from Destiny: The Battle That Rescued Washington, is a 2006 docudrama about the Battle of Monocacy. The battle is featured in the novel Valley of the Shadow (2015) by Ralph Peters. Notes References Cooling, Benjamin F. Jubal Early's Raid on Washington 1864. Baltimore, MD: The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1989. . Cooling, Benjamin F. Monocacy: The Battle That Saved Washington. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, 1997. . Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. . Kennedy, Frances H., ed. The Civil War Battlefield Guide. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. . Leepson, Marc. "The 'Great Rebel Raid.'" Civil War Times, August 2007 (Volume XLVI, number 6) (Leepson, August 2007). Leepson, Marc. Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007. . (Leepson, 2007) Further reading Quint, Ryan T. Determined To Stand and Fight: The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864. Emerging Civil War Series. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2016. . Spaulding, Brett W. Last Chance for Victory: Jubal Early's 1864 Maryland Invasion. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 2010. . External links Battle of Monocacy: Battle maps, photos, history articles, and battlefield news (Civil War Trust) Desperate Engagement: Battlefield Tour, Marc Leepson, National Cable Satellite Corporation, November 2, 2007 Monocacy Junction Monocacy Monocacy Junction Monocacy Frederick County, Maryland 1864 in Maryland Monocacy July 1864 events