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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: November 1, 2008
Caption: Carter's Guns Dominate Forney's Fields
Additional Description: Looking from the artillery displays just west of the Peace Light, to the south across the location of Forney's Farm. On the right is Buford Avenue, where the cavalry delayed the Confederates before the arrival of Rodes' Division. On the left are woods along Oak Ridge where the Federal infantry defended. Note in the center distance is the second railroad cut, and then beyond Reyonlds Avenue on McPherson's Ridge. Carter's Guns on Oak Hill enfiladed much of the Federal First Corps line.

The artillery piece here, a 12-pounder Confederate Napoleon, represents one of Carter's Guns.
Submitted: January 19, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p50537
File Size: 1.007 Megabytes

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