Attachment_C_AV_Schedule.pdf

Electronic Programs Report A schedule of all electronic programs in the exhibit.

Electronic Programs are any Audiovisual (linear) programs, Digital Interactive (non-linear) programs, and electromechanical programs. “Programs” refers to the media content, as well as the software and control code used to run them.

Electronic Programs Schedule A listing of project electronic programs

02 Battle of MonocacyScene

01 Battle of Monocacy MapContent Gr :

Video ProgramEP-02.01-100 Battle Animation

Existing battle map script and audio will be reused, audio edited to include additional sound effects as needed. Accompanying animation to be created using the sequence of lights on existing fiber optic map as reference.

Audio DescriptionEP-02.01-200 Animation Captioning

Projection animation programming will be open captioned with subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, to be displayed on monitors on all sides of the map.

Monocacy National Battlefield

MONO

Battle Map Narration

It is July of the year 1864, the fourth year of the Civil War, and the North is pushing the Confederacy ever harder. General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia has had to retreat to Petersburg, a city located just 25 miles from the Confederate capital of Richmond. Lee is surrounded by hardened Union forces that outnumber him by two to one, and Washington soldiers reinforce federal troops. They have come from the forts around the capital city, and have left the capital virtually defenseless. Washington is a tempting target. General Lee sends a corps to get the Shenandoah Valley, and, if possible, cross the Potomac River and threaten or perhaps take North Washington. The verbal orders go to the most daring Confederate commander, General Jubal Early, who gets the Valley without problem. En route to Maryland, Early receives orders to send a detachment of cavalry to the Federal prison at Point Lookout to free the thousands of Confederate prisoners locked up there. On July 8, "Old Jube" and some

15. 000 troops are massing outside Frederick, Maryland. Ahead are Monocacy Junction and the road to Washington.

This summer has been a hot one along the Monocacy River, but good for the harvest. At the Thomas Farm and around the Worthington House, the wheat has been cut and the corn is waist-deep. Across the river, the Best Barn is already full. Soon, the grain will be brought to the Gambrill Mill. Two bridges cross the river at Monocacy Junction: the covered bridge on the road to Washington, and the Baltimore-Ohio Iron Railroad Bridge.

Last week, railroad railroaders were the first people to see the Confederate advance, and alerted Baltimore and Ohio President John Garrett. Garrett gave the message to General Lew Wallace of the Union. Wallace is the commander of federal forces in Baltimore. Most of his troops are popular militias and hundred-day-old soldiers who have never seen a battle. Now, at dusk on the eve of the battle, Wallace posts in its place the rest of his makeshift army: ten regiments of veterans who have arrived just in time to increase the Union troops to 5,800 troops. Most reinforcements are in two lines, protecting the covered bridge and the river to the south. Others join Wallace's soldiers in the two pillboxes that were built last year to help defend the bridges. The defensive line to the north is mostly composed of popular militias and hundred-day soldiers. In front of Monocacy Junction, there is a line of soldiers. The Federals have only a battery of six guns and a 24-pounder howitzer mounted near the fort east of the railroad bridge. At four o'clock in the morning, the last troops are stationed. Wallace knows well that the odds are against him, but he has determined to fight. He hopes to delay the enemy so that federal reinforcements can reach Washington from Petersburg.

In the early hours of the morning, farmers have sensed the imminent danger. Horses have been brought to hiding places in the mountains, cellars have been boarded, and families have gone into hiding... to good hours. A line of Confederate soldiers arrives to test the bridge's defense.

Behind, in line of battle, is an entire division of Confederates supported by artillery. Fighting soon becomes fierce at Monocacy Junction, but with the help of the howitzer, the Federal defenders maintain their position.

The Union counterattacked so strongly that GeneralConfederado Jubal Early abandoned his attempt at a frontal assault. Another way is found when cavalry troops locate a ford south of Monocacy Junction. They will flank the enemy. Meanwhile, Confederate marksmen are stationed in the Best Barn to charge the Federals one by one, and more Confederate artillery is mounted. Union shooters return fire and set fire to the barn. At Worthington Ford, the Confederates defeat some Federal defenders, cross the river, dismount, and prepare to attack.

In response to the threat, Union brigades move left at Thomas Farm, and a line of soldiers advance to the wooden fence separating the two farms. They wait there, behind the fence, while the unsuspecting Confederates rush for the cornfield. Federal soldiers open devastating fire on rebel troops and destroy the first Confederate attack. To prevent the enemy from attacking their right flank, Union troops burn the wooden-covered bridge.

Now there is a truce on the battlefield. The Union treats the wounded at the Gambrill Mill and expects a new Confederate attack. This time, the cavalry attacks over a larger area and locates the Union's left flank before charging. The lines are point-blank... The soldiers are fighting hand-to-hand... the Federals have to back up behind the Thomas House... but the reserves counterattack and repel the Confederates a second time.

Without giving time to rest, the main Confederate offensive, an entire division, comes from Frederick, crosses the river, and prepares to attack. The Confederate assault has three steps:

the first is to push back the left flank of the Union, the second is to charge down the center of the line, and the third is to advance along the river to the bridges. The battle is brief and intense, and hundreds of soldiers fall in the assault... Thomas House is lost... and the Federal lines are weakening and finally retreating. Across the river at Monocacy Junction, the Confederates charge the fort and cause the defenders to desperately escape across the railroad bridge under enemy fire. Besieged and overwhelmed, the federal troops withdraw... while the Confederates keep coming like a curtain of flames... and finally the battle ends and the Federals retreat behind the Gambrill Mill north towards Baltimore. They held their ground for as long as possible, and it was enough. As night falls, Jubal Early's exhausted army camps, because it is too late to continue on its way to Washington.

The Confederates finally arrived at Fort Stevens two days later, but Union troops had just arrived from Petersburg to repel them. Early and his army have to retreat, and thus ends the last incursion from the South to the North. Although the Battle of Monocacy was, strictly speaking, a defeat for General Wallace and his soldiers, it was not a true defeat. As Wallace would write years later, for fighting for time, "These men died to save the National Capital, and they saved it."