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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: March 14, 2009
Caption: Repulse of the 3rd Missouri (Union) Cavalry
Additional Description: Looking east from Gravel Hill Cemetery. The road here is approximately the same course used by the wartime military road. The lead Federal unit, the 3rd Missouri Cavalry, advanced up the military road and met Confederates entrenched behind breastworks along the top of Crowley's Ridge near this point. The Federals were thrown back, gaining the time needed for the Confederates to escape across the St. Francis River.
Submitted: April 21, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p60353
File Size: 1.003 Megabytes

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