"Trossel's Barnyard" occupied by the 9th Mass battery
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"Trossel's Barnyard" occupied by the 9th Mass battery
"Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War," vol. II.
July 1863
Albumen silver print
16.9 x 25.0 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, 1948
1985.1281.0001
Inscriptions mount-verso (handwritten in ink) "Gettysburg. "Trossel's Barnyard"
occupied by the 9th Mass battery of light artillery who lost 65 out of
88 horses. This battery held in check the fearful charge of the
confederates until the Union lines could reform and repel the attack."
occupied by the 9th Mass battery of light artillery who lost 65 out of
88 horses. This battery held in check the fearful charge of the
confederates until the Union lines could reform and repel the attack."
