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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: November 3, 2007
Caption: Skirmish Line Fight
Additional Description: Looking from the Best Farm at the location of the Federal skirmish line's battle positions. The Georgetown Pike (generally where the modern day Urbana Pike's guard rails are seen in the distance) intersected, and overpassed, the main line of the B&O Railroad (where the tree line running from the center to the right of the photo). The 14th New Jersey monument is just out of sight beyond the trees in the center. At the time of the battle, the tree line along the railroad didn't exist. A blockhouse fortification standing just to the northeast side of the wooden bridge for the Pike had a clear zone of fire across to the Best Farm. The blockhouse was later burned when the wooden bridge was set afire.
Submitted: November 3, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p9322
File Size: 1.113 Megabytes

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