By petition of Rockville 's citizens , the Maryland General Assembly incorporated the village on March 10 , 1860 . During the American Civil War , General George B. McClellan stayed at the Beall Dawson house in 1862 . In addition , General J.E.B. Stuart and an army of 8,000 Confederate cavalrymen marched through and occupied Rockville on June 28 , 1863 , while on their way to Gettysburg and stayed at the Prettyman house . Jubal Anderson Early had also crossed through Maryland on his way to and from his attack on Washington . In 1913 , on the birthday of Jefferson Davis , the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a statue near the Rockville courthouse dedicated to Confederate soldiers from Montgomery County . The monument was removed in 2017 as part of a wave of removals of Confederate monuments and memorials in response to the 2015 Charleston church shooting , and is now located in White 's Ferry
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Rockville, Maryland