Union Cannon at Malvern Hill

Seven Days Battles:
Malvern Hill

Union Cannon at Malvern Hill

A lone cannon in the fields at the top of Malvern Hill, where Federal artillery shattered assaults by Robert E. Lee’s Confederates throughout the afternoon of July 1, 1862.

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Sergeant Daniel MacNamara of the 9th Massachusetts Infantry: “The enemy’s line was within a hundred and fifty yards of our guns. The heavy tramp of their feet could be heard.  The order was then given to our batteries, ‘Fire!’  The lanyards were pulled, and from the muzzles of fifty pieces of artillery death and destruction were spread amongst the lines of the gallant foe.” -- from MacNamara’s The History of the Ninth Regiment, as quoted in Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days, page 139

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