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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: February 9, 2008
Caption: Advance of William's Division
Additional Description: Looking from Cornfield Avenue to the east, past the monuments. The 27th was part of William's Division, which advanced from the East Woods into the flanks of Confederate units defending the cornfield. By this phase of the battle, several successive waves of attacks and counterattacks had left the field trampled, cut, and covered with bodies.
Submitted: February 24, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p16854
File Size: 0.970 Megabytes

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