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The Battle Begins
Mid-afternoon on August 28, 1862, Union soldiers from Gene...
The Battle Begins
Porter’s soldiers rested their muskets across a make...
The Battle Begins
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
You are s...
The Battle Begins at Barber’s Wheat Field
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The fighting began where you now stand...
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The Battle Begins
Mid-afternoon on August 28, 1862, Union soldiers from General Rufus King's division rest along Pageland Lane awaiting orders for them to continue marching south seven miles to Manassas Junction.
Late afternoon, orders arrived prompting King to return to the Warrenton Turnpike ...
The Battle Begins
Porter’s soldiers rested their muskets across a make-shift breastwork of felled trees, bales of hay, and knapsacks. A Union soldier remembered “an ominous silence” that covered the battlefield moments before Lee launched his first assault at 2:30 p.m.
Union shells ...
The Battle Begins
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
You are standing 200 yards behind the first American line, which stood looking across what was then an open field. A quarter-mile away the British arrived and formed well-ordered ranks on either side of New Garden ...
The Battle Begins at Barber’s Wheat Field
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The fighting began where you now stand and in the woods behind you in mid-afternoon of October 7, 1777. Within minutes, more than 4,000 men collided in savage combat along a line stretching westward across the Barber Wheat ...
