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View from Union Cemetery towards Crampton
Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: July 21, 2007
Caption: View from Union Cemetery towards Crampton's Gap
Additional Description: Winfield Scott Hancock's Brigade occupied this cemetery during the Battle of Crampton's Gap, Sept. 14, 1862. The opening phases played out as skirmishes across the open fields in the background. Federal forces formed there for their full assault upon the Confederate positions along Mountain Church Road (a field beyond the tree line seen beyond the field).
Submitted: July 25, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p5252
File Size: 1.033 Megabytes

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