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Photographer: Bradley Owen
Taken: October 21, 2016
Caption:
Wartime Stone Wall Beside The Monument | Additional Description: Here successive charges by companies of the 1st Massachusetts were defeated by sharpshooters from the 2nd and 3rd Virginia posted behind the wall and supported by one cannon. The Virginians were later driven from this position by the 1st Maine Cavalry concluding the Battle of Aldie.
Submitted: April 27, 2021, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p582375
File Size: 4.706 Megabytes
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