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(7-02Tour Stop 4 (The Cornfield). View looking east from southwest corner of The Cornfield. The East Woods are in the distant background

(7-02Tour Stop 5 (West Woods), view looking southwest. 2002 NPS Tour Guide: Union Gen. John Sedgwick's division lost more than 2,200 men in less than half an hour in an ill-fated charge into these woods against Jackson's troops
 
Information Tablet (The jaws of death)
 
Information Tablet (With flags flying)
 
Information Tablet (We may never meet again)
   
West Woods panorama

            

(7-02Tour Stop 6 (Mumma Farmstead), view looking southeast. 2002 NPS Tour Guide: Burned by the Confederates to prevent their use by Union sharpshooters, the Mumma farm buildings were the only civilian property purposely destroyed during the battle
  
Information Tablet (A house was burning)
 
Mumma Farmstead panorama

(7-02Tour Stop 7 (Roulette Farm), view looking northeast toward the Roulette Farmhouse in the distant background. 2002 NPS Tour Guide: Union troops under French and Richardson crossed these fields on their way to meet the Confederates posted in the Sunken Road
 
Information Tablet (A thrilling spectacle)
 
Rowlett Farm panorama

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