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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: April 12, 2008
Caption: Contested Ground
Additional Description: Looking from the base of the Michigan Brigade monument to the northwest. The East Cavalry Avenue cuts through a tree line in the distant center. That tree line is approximately the location of a wartime fence line, probably a mix of field stone and rail, at which the 7th Michigan Cavalry confronted the Confederates of Fitzhugh Lee's Brigade. Later the 1st Michigan charged into the foreground (near the location of the monument). These series of charges and counter charges were perhaps the closest to a "Napoleonic" cavalry clash during the Civil War. The entire episode was later romanticized in the Errol Flynn movie "They Died with Their Boots On."
Submitted: July 20, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p28928
File Size: 1.384 Megabytes

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