Excerpt from Billy Hamilton: A Novel Immediately behind me, a few yards away, is the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, crossed at this point by a small bridge, which of course is also guarded. Beyond this is the rolling valley of the Monocacy River, which running down from Frederick City joins the Potomac some mile and a half away. To the north, Sugar Loaf Mountain rises. To the west, something over two miles distant, is The Point of Rocks, where the Baltimore Ohio Railway, coming through the great limestone cliffs of the Potomac gorge from Harper's Ferry - now occupied by General White and Colonel Miles and eleven thousand Union soldiers - turns sharply to the north and runs up the Monocacy Valley on its way to Washington, passing south of Frederick. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.