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Federal Cavalry Advances Down Depot Road
Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: November 22, 2008
Caption: Federal Cavalry Advances Down Depot Road
Additional Description: Looking west from the Reams Station Battlefield. Today the road is called Reams Drive (CR 606). The battlefield site is southwest of the marker location, at the intersection of Reams Drive and Halifax Road (CR 604). Civil War Preservation Trust maintains the site (scene of two battles). During the First Reams Station, the 11th Pennsylvania and 1st District of Columbia Cavalry, forming Kautz's vanguard, advanced from the west (toward the camera) and encountered Mahone's infantry near here.
Submitted: November 23, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p44534
File Size: 1.310 Megabytes

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