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Read’s Battalion CSA Artillery
Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: April 24, 2007
Caption: Read’s Battalion CSA Artillery
Additional Description: Artillery placed here guarded Richmond from the Union advance. These guns helped stop several Federal frontal assaults during the Battle of Cold Harbor in June of 1864.
Submitted: January 4, 2009, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p48991
File Size: 3.599 Megabytes

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