and lew wallace basically says, say no more, because here is lew wallace's chance for action. a man who was watching action looking for action, and now almost gift wrapped. here it is, the railroad and the river is not in technically administrative command. it's outside of his boundary. is that going to stop him now? so on july 5th, 1864, with one staff officer lew wallace makes his way west out of baltimore out of the camden yard station and makes his way to the monocacy river. and then he realizes i may have bit off a little bit more than i could chew, just a little bit, because lew wallace has, 1500 men under his command, most of them are a 100 day emergency militia men who have been formed. the ohio guard have been sent to baltimore as well as them some potomac, holmberg aide units are sent to guard the river here. the problem with that is it's kind of like the island of misfit toys. everybody who was basically too politically cancerous, has been sent to the middle department. wallace's second in command is gone into rest is tyler tyler's enemy, andrew humphreys, who was t