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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: September 29, 2007
Caption: Middletown Cemetery
Additional Description: Listed as stop nine on the Center of Military History staff ride, the cemetery was at the time of the battle part open field. Getty's Federal Division rallied here and made a stand, allowing the remainder of the Army of the Shenandoah to retreat northward. Federals lay on the reverse slope (to the right side out of frame) of the ridge running through the cemetery, unseen by the advancing Confederates. Pegram's Confederate division advanced within 30 yards (foreground of the photo) without seeing the concealed enemy. The Federals rose and delivered a volley, repulsing the advance. Eventually Confederate artillery placed on the Valley Pike (close to the location of the marker) forced a Federal withdrawal from this point.
Submitted: November 11, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p9898
File Size: 1.348 Megabytes

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