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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: December 27, 2008
Caption: Left Flank of the 71st Pennsylvania
Additional Description: Looking from the regiment's left flank marker stone toward the monument and the angle. The regiment's initial position was to the rear of Cushing's battery. When the Confederate infantry advanced, the 71st moved forward into the angle to repulse the attack. Garnett's and then Armistead's Confederate Brigades charged the angle with the latter actually crossing the stone wall.
Submitted: February 13, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p52950
File Size: 1.339 Megabytes

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