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Photographer: Craig Swain
Caption: Willoughby Run Quarry
Additional Description: On a foot trail about paralleling the tree line, about 150 yards west of the 7th Wisconsin monument is this depression along Willoughby Run. The depression was once quarry in use at the time of the battle. The quarry was an obstacle to Archer's Confederates in their advance early in the morning of July 1st. Later Confederates were pinned down in this area by the counter charge of the 2th Wisconsin. Confederate General James Archer was captured just west of Willoughby Run by Private Patrick Maloney of Company G, 2nd Wisconsin.
Submitted: January 9, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p49545
File Size: 1.830 Megabytes

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