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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: January 12, 2008
Caption: Virginia Central Railroad at the Second Day Battlefield
Additional Description: This section of the railroad, about a mile and a half west of the marker, was the scene of the second day's fighting. Confederate General Hampton had reformed the cavalry on the south side of the railroad (to the right). Sheridan aligned Torbert's Division on the north side of the railroad, (in the trees on the left). This section was later called the "Bloody Angle" as the apex of the Confederate lines and the center of the second day's fighting. After seven separate attacks here in the afternoon, the lines were barely a few yards apart. Federal artillery under Lt. Edward B. Williston in fact were firing at point blank range. Williston would later receive the Medal of Honor for his actions here.
Submitted: January 21, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p14341
File Size: 1.305 Megabytes

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