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Photographer: Mark Hilton
Taken: August 2, 2018
Caption: Skirmish at Guesses Creek Marker looking east.
Additional Description: Note the cannon motif on the gate. Site of the Confederate hospital south of Leola that served the Jenkins' Ferry wounded. Local people called it the Cannonball house because it was hit by a cannon shell before the soldiers got into the river bottoms and caught by the Confederates. It was located about 3 to 5 miles south of where most of the fighting occurred.
Submitted: August 5, 2018, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p438598
File Size: 5.831 Megabytes

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