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Initial Location of the Brooklyn Regiment
Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: August 16, 2008
Caption: Initial Location of the Brooklyn Regiment
Additional Description: It was the left most regiment in Cutler's Brigade, which deployed along McPherson Ridge as the infantry of 1st Division I Corps replaced the cavalry in the fighting line during the morning phases of the fighting on July 1. The Brooklyn Regiment would soon turn to the north when Davis' Confederate Brigade threatened to overrun Hall's Battery.
Submitted: October 13, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p39132
File Size: 1.286 Megabytes

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