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Artillery Saves the Day
Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: August 28, 2010
Caption: Artillery Saves the Day
Additional Description: Marker on the side of the Visitor Center.
"The roar of cannon, the crashing of shot through the trees, the whizzing and bursting of shell, the uninterrupted rattle of thirty thousand muskets, all mingled in one prolonged and tremendous volume of sound, as though all the thunders of heaven had been rolled together."
Captain William M. Haigh, 36th Illinois Infantry, 1876.
Submitted: October 31, 2010, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p134254
File Size: 0.505 Megabytes

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