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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: April 2, 2009
Caption: Vicinity of Samaria Church (facing south): Barnetts Rd & Lot Cary Rd.
Additional Description: Intersection of Rt 609 to Harrison's Landing and Rt 602 to Charles City Courthouse. Union troopers, under Brig Gen Henry E Davies Jr, were screening the movement of a 900 wagon escort along the James River. On June 24, 1864 they came up the Courthouse road, pushed west, and entrenched. That evening, they would fall back along this same road as Confederate cavalry pursued.
Submitted: April 8, 2009, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p58656
File Size: 1.064 Megabytes

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