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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: December 27, 2008
Caption: Batteries F & K, Third U.S. Artillery Position
Additional Description: The battery had been reduced to a single two gun section during the fighting on July 2, not so much due to personnel losses, but lack of horses. On the morning of July 3, the remaining guns were grouped with those survivors of the 9th Massachusetts Light Battery (Bigelow's) and sent to the north end of Cemetery Ridge under the command of Lt. Richard S. Milton. In what was considered a quiet sector, the battery's survivors faced the brunt of a great artillery bombardment around mid-day.
Submitted: December 29, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p48236
File Size: 0.910 Megabytes

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