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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: February 21, 2009
Caption: 72nd Pennsylvania Counterattacks the Confederate Breech
Additional Description: Looking past the monument toward the stone wall in front of the Copse of Trees. When the 71st Pennsylvania fell back under pressure from Armistead's Confederates, the 72nd Pennsylvania counterattacked into the "angle."
Submitted: March 29, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p57536
File Size: 1.011 Megabytes

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