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| Battery Eight of
the Dimmock Line |
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| A detail from a picture of a battery of Union
troops in action at the former Battery Eight location. They have already put up
a rapid entrenchment,
actually outside of Battery Eight. You can see that the interior
slope has not been revetted
with logs or sandbags, as compared with the battery in the distance,
where you can see a small piece of the interior construction to the
left of the flag and standing men. |
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This picture shows the Union troops occupying Battery
Eight five days after it's capture by men of the 1st and 22nd colored
troops. Famed Civil War photographer Matthew Brady stands next
to the cannon in the center, wearing a straw hat. They do not
seem to expect any counter battery artillery fire, or any effective
small arms fire to be directed upon the position, judging from the
relaxed and casual attitudes of the men in the picture.
Union troops demolished battery eight, and built a redan
on the site. |
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| A bronze cannon near the Battery
Eight location. |
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