. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE SLAUGHTER FIELD AT FAIR OAKS Over this ground the fiercest fightingof the two days battle took place, onMay 31, 1862. Some 400 soldierswere buried here, where they fell, andtheir hastily dug graves appear plain-ly in the picture. In the redoubt seenjust beyond the two houses was thecenter of the Federal line of battle,equi-distant, about a mile and a half,from both Seven Pines and Fair entrenchments near these farmdwellings were begun on May 28th byCaseys
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE SLAUGHTER FIELD AT FAIR OAKS Over this ground the fiercest fightingof the two days battle took place, onMay 31, 1862. Some 400 soldierswere buried here, where they fell, andtheir hastily dug graves appear plain-ly in the picture. In the redoubt seenjust beyond the two houses was thecenter of the Federal line of battle,equi-distant, about a mile and a half,from both Seven Pines and Fair entrenchments near these farmdwellings were begun on May 28th byCaseys Division, 4th Corps. There■was not time to finish them beforethe Confederate attack opened thebattle, and the artillery of CaseysDivision was hurriedly placed in po-sition behind the incomplete works.
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