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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: May 26, 2007
Caption: Fields of Thomas Farms
Additional Description: Looking to the west from the Thomas Farm, Confederates and Federals fought across these fields in the afternoon of July 9, 1864 and decided the battle of Monocacy. Although the Federal units were mixed up during the action, Rickett's Division defending here had a brigade under Colonel William S. Truex on the left (closest to the camera) and another under Colonel Matthew R. McClennan on the right (centered on the tree line in the middle of the fields).

Note the shadows of the silo on the ground, and compare to the next photo's view of the silo. The distance to the far tree line, where US Interstate 270 crosses the Monocacy, is just over half a mile.
Submitted: November 4, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p9336
File Size: 0.950 Megabytes

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