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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: December 22, 2007
Caption: A.P. Hill's Division Arrives
Additional Description: From a point on the optional portion of the trail, looking south. The private house which stands inside the battlefield tract was built after the war. Arriving late in the afternoon, Hill's division was winded from an all day march. None-the-less, in a role he would repeat a month later at Antietam, Hill deployed his division from the march against an enemy poised on the verge of success. The first to deploy was Branch's Brigade of North Carolinians, which cleared the ground Crawford's Federals had taken earlier in the afternoon. Portions of Branch's Brigade advanced down this hill and continued to the north. On their left was Archer's Brigade, further supported by Ronald's and Pender's Brigades. The influx of Confederate reinforcements was too much for the Federals at this point.
Submitted: January 1, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p12901
File Size: 1.287 Megabytes

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