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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: August 16, 2008
Caption: Hall's Battery Contests Confederate Advance
Additional Description: Hall's battery initially deployed to relieve Calef's Battery along the Chambersburg Road in the mid-morning phase of the first day battle. Essentially, Calef's, then Hall's, batteries were engaged in a lopsided duel with an entire battalion (five batteries) of Confederate guns. When elements of Davis' Confederate Brigade advanced, Hall conducted a retreat in close quarters. With some luck and much quick thinking, the battery managed to get away losing only one gun. However two of remaining five guns were disabled. The one abandoned gun was later retrieved.
Submitted: October 19, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p39964
File Size: 1.248 Megabytes

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