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Confederate Bombardment
Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: May 17, 2008
Caption: Confederate Bombardment
Additional Description: Looking from the marker location toward the east at Bolivar Heights. US 340 crosses the Heights in the center distance. Trimble's Confederate infantry Brigade of Lawton's Division occupied the ridge in the general area of the marker. Artillery pieces posted here bombarded Federal lines on Bolivar Heights, starting on September 14, 1862. Later three pieces were advanced forward toward the uncovered section of Bolivar Heights to fire on the Federal flanks.
Submitted: May 26, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p24253
File Size: 1.157 Megabytes

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