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Federal Lines
Photographer: Craig Swain
Caption: Federal Lines
Additional Description: Here, to the west of the Robinson's Tavern site and to the east of the marker location, Federal forces in General Sedgwick's VI Corps entrenched as they faced the Confederate lines about two miles further west beyond Mine Run. The armies engaged here were the same as those which fought at Gettysburg, earlier in the year. Consider that Pickett's famous charge in that battle traversed a mile over open fields. Here at Mine Run a proposed Federal attack would cover double that distance over broken ground. All this a very good reason why Mine Run was a battle that never really got started.
Submitted: January 13, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p13705
File Size: 1.034 Megabytes

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