I ran towards my horse, which was tied to a fence near by, and hastily mounting rode forward to the crest of the ridge on which Knapp’s battery was posted, and halted near it. I was then watching some soldiers who were boiling green corn in a large iron boiler that they had obtained from a farmer when I was suddenly startled by a rattle of musketry in front. Forbes mispelled Knap’s name in the title.įorbes wrote: Nothing to alarm a spectator took place until early in the afternoon. The battery was posted about where Mitchell’s Station Road intersects modern Route 15. This drawing is titled “Knapps Pennsylvania Battery in action, at Cedar Mountain.” This sketch by artist/war correspondent Edwin Forbes shows Captain Joseph Knap’s Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery E in action during the battle. As the above image shows some Federal Artillery on the battlefield, lets look at some of the war sketches depicting the same, and other actions. This detail of the image above shows some structures and possibly tents on the battlefield just over the horizon. Federal battery fording a tributary of the Rappahannock on the day of the battle. The right and left sides of the original stereograph were separated and then merged to come up with this single image with extended edges, right & left. I’m not so sure now where this was taken as the road network through the battlefield has changed considerably since 1862. But detailed close ups, of the background horizen, show some structures and possible tents. For a time I thought this photograph was taken where Cedar Run crosses the Old Orange Road, which is still extant. The two sides of the image above have been separated, merged and cropped, then cleaned up a bit, to remove some of the dust and scratches so prevalent in these historic glass plate negatives. Then I cleaned up some of the dust and scratches. ![]() I separated out the sides of this stereograph image and merged them into the one image below. Today’s courthouse has been relocated from the original location pictured. The Court-house is visible toward the right side. You can see troops riding the locomotive in the center of the image.
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