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Meanwhile, enjoy a brief history of Rossmoor, MD.

A Brief History of Rossmoor, Maryland

On a Sunday afternoon in June 1863, Mr. Charles Abert was on his way home from attending church in Mechanicsville (present day Olney) when he was stopped on the Washington-Brookville Turnpike (now Georgia Avenue) by soldiers wearing gray uniforms. It was the 28th, and the soldiers were Confederate troops attached to General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry corps, which was making its way northward to Pennsylvania The corps' three brigades had with them 400 Union prisoners and 150 wagons that they had just captured in Rockville. Abert, a lawyer and native of New Jersey who had settled in Montgomery County two years earlier, recorded in his diary that he was taken to General Stuart, with whom he had a conversation before being allowed to proceed to his home, which was located on the present site of the Manor Country Club.

Nine months earlier, on the 7th and 8th of September, the right wing of General George B. McClellan's army, under the command of General Ambrose Burnside, had passed the crossroads, coming up from Washington on the turnpike in pursuit of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, then operating in the Frederick area in an earlier unsuccessful attempt to take the war to the north.

Despite the cordialities with General Stuart, when Colonel Charles R. Lowell of the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry appeared at Norbeck the next day, Abert provided him with maps of the area to aid in his pursuit of Stuart, who was by now one day closer to a delayed meeting with General Robert E. Lee, who was waiting for him near the little town of Gettysburg. This incursion, too, would be unsuccessful.

A year later another Confederate force, headed by General Jubal Early, passed near the Norbeck area, on Veirs Mill Road, this time on the way to attack Washington itself in an effort to draw Union troops away from Richmond. Because the Union troops did come up from Virginia, the success of this part of the plan caused the failure of the other, the attack itself. Father James B. Sheeran, C.Ss.R., a Catholic chaplain attached to the Confederates, recorded that the retreat from the attack's stopping point, near 7th and G Streets, northwest, took all night, and that Rockville was reached about daylight on July 12,1864.

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