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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: June 28, 2008
Caption: Dement's and Carpenter's Batteries
Additional Description: Looking south along the loop road. Latimer positioned his batteries around Benner's Hill, a low knoll to the northeast of Cemetery Hill. The guns were densely packed and were on a lower elevation than the Federal guns on Cemetery and Culp's Hill. On the high wooded ground in the distant center, the top of the Culp's Hill observation tower is visible. The geography gave the Federals an advantage, and soon Latimer's batteries were in a cross fire. Federal guns systematically knocked out one of Latimer's guns after another with concentrated fires.
Submitted: August 31, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p33799
File Size: 1.349 Megabytes

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