the battle of monocacy. and so mayor william cole delays all day and they delay and they delay ultimately early gets his ransom he gets his $200,000 but for the time being there is no military leadership at the front get all these confederates and they go i don't know where you told what to do. no. where you told what to do. no. so they just kind of mill around, make a lot of noise. and wallace takes that happily. he's not going to counterattack. he's just going to say, you know what, you take your time do what you have to do. the second of our bridges, this is the covered bridge i was telling you about. almost 300 union skirmishes were sent across the river as a holding force. lieutenant george davis of the 10th vermont ultimately takes command of these skirmishes. and so the fighting begins with these skirmishes guarding the covered bridge. davis is an experienced veteran his soldiers are experienced veterans. the problem is when confederates do start to attack, gets gun shy and orders. this bridge burned