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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: August 25, 2007
Caption: "I Regard this as the Thermopylae of My Campaign"
Additional Description: General Robert E. Lee thus described the actions at Stephenson's Depot. The monument honors the 1st Maryland Battery, which stood a position just to the south along the railroad. Sustaining heavy causalities, the battery blocked Milroy's line of retreat until Confederate forces had sufficiently massed. In the action, the battery lost 13 men. The lower inscription in the bronze portion of the monument lists the casualties by name.
Submitted: September 6, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p6536
File Size: 1.230 Megabytes

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