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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: March 29, 2008
Caption: 27th North Carolina and 3rd Arkansas
Additional Description: At around noon, as part of a Confederate counterattack to clear Greene's Division from their foothold around the Dunker Church, the 27th N.C. and 3rd Ark. attacked east toward the Hagerstown Pike, crossing at a point opposite the visitors center parking lot (here on the left). The attack drove the Federals, who were running short of ammunition, out of the West Woods for good. Following directly on their heels, the two regiments drove through a soft spot in the Federal lines. After overtaking part of Owen's Rhode Island Battery, the two regiments continued forward past the Mumma's Lane and nearly to the Sunken Lane. Unsupported, the Confederates fell back, but not before causing much disruption in the Federal lines.
Submitted: April 5, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p20799
File Size: 1.444 Megabytes

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