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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: July 30, 2007
Caption: The Old Jenifer's Cavalry Marker
Additional Description: Replaced in August 2007 by the current marker, this one read:
"Jenifer's Cavalry" helped turn back the Federal advance toward Leesburg in the morning skirmishing that opened the battle. Bolstered by four companies of Mississippi Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel Walter H. Jenifer's force made up the left flank in the Confederate battle line. Colonel Jenifer wrote of the afternoon's fight: "...it was found to be impossible to charge with cavalry...I therefore ordered to dismount...and fight on foot. After marching several hundred yards through dense woods, our troops were fired upon by the enemy's skirmishers, who were concealed behind trees and in deep ravines. At the same time a constant fire was kept up by [Federal] artillery which had previously been landed on this side of the river, throwing shell and round shot."
Source: Official Records of the Civil War.
Submitted: August 30, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p6233
File Size: 0.904 Megabytes

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