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The 1st Battalion
Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: February 9, 2008
Caption: The 1st Battalion's Skirmish Line
Additional Description: Looking west from the tablet location. The modern Boonsboro Pike runs on the right side of the photo. Skirmishers from the 1st Battalion, 14th U.S. Infantry deployed across the foreground here to confront Confederates on the high ground in the distance. Today the National Cemetery covers the positions used by Confederates from Garnett's Brigade and various artillery batteries.
Submitted: March 22, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p19405
File Size: 1.075 Megabytes

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