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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: February 16, 2008
Caption: Compass Points for the Battle of the Wilderness
Additional Description: At several locations in the Central Virginia Battlefields, bronze pointers such as this one indicate the locations related points of interest. Here Parker's Store (along the Orange Plank Road) is indicated as 2.9 miles south. Spotsylvania Court House is 13 miles to the southeast. Culpeper Court House is 17 miles to the northwest. Orange Court House is 20 miles west. Richmond is 60 miles almost due south. And Appomattox Court House is 95 miles southwest.
Submitted: April 27, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p22416
File Size: 1.527 Megabytes

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