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The Brigade
Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: February 9, 2008
Caption: The Brigade's Advance
Additional Description: Looking south from the tablet location at the high ground along Branch Avenue. The closest monuments in the background are for the 45th and 100th Pennsylvania of Welsh's Brigade. The regiments were arrayed from south (furthest from the camera) to north in a line as such: 8th Michigan, 100th Pennsylvania, 46th New York, and 45th Pennsylvania. The latter was situated astride the road in the ravine (under the overpass of modern Burnside Bridge Road).
Submitted: March 23, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p19481
File Size: 0.681 Megabytes

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