Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.

Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: November 10, 2007
Caption: The Artillery Crew View of the Battlefield
Additional Description: Fairview lays in the distance to the background right in this view. In this frame, Stuart's and Anderson's converging Confederate lines advanced on the Federal positions near the location of the cannon. The Cannon pictured here is a 3in Ordnance Rifle, Model of 1861. Its registration number is 195, indicating a manufactured date of 1862. Similar weapons, if not this very piece, were deployed at the Chancellorsville intersection during the battle.
Submitted: November 29, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p10875
File Size: 1.165 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.