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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: July 30, 2007
Caption: The Old 17th Mississippi Infantry Marker
Additional Description: The marker was replaced in August of 2007. It read:
The 17th Mississippi Infantry was the last regiment engaged at Ball's Bluff. With a final charge against the Union position, the Confederate victory was complete.

Private Robert A. Moore of the 17th wrote: "The firing was very heavy early in the evening...orders came for us about four-thirty [p.m.] to double quick up to the field of battle...we made a charge through the woods as soon as we got to the battlefield...orders were given by Colonel Featherston to drive the enemy into the river or into eternity...the cannon was taken and the enemy driven back under the bluff and when we arrived at the brink of the bluff and fired down on them, they cried out that they would surrender."
Source and Photograph: A Life for the Confederacy,edited by James W. Silver, 1991, Broadfoot Publishing Co.
Submitted: August 31, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p6276
File Size: 0.873 Megabytes

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