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Photographer: Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress Caption: Germanna Ford Crossing Site from a Civil War Photo
Additional Description: Copy of the photo reproduced on the marker, showing Federal artillery crossing at Germanna Ford. Extrapolating the bends in the river and the bank topography, the pontoon bridges should have been just to the upstream side of the modern highway bridge. (Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0286) Submitted: January 13, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia. Database Locator Identification Number: p13688 File Size: 0.076 Megabytes
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