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It
can be done! I can take a picture of the Wheatfield in the autumn with blue skies! (Having walked its expanse
two previous years in a row, once in November and once in October, I wondered
if that was even possible :-)). Here we see Winslow’s Battery with its
accompanying Napoleons, and part of the fence that runs along Sickles Avenue at
far left. Countless boys in blue and gray were wounded, fell, and died on this
ground. It’s a very sobering thought.
**HONORED TODAY**
1ST LT. JOHN
CHANDLER NIEMEYER
Co. I, 9TH
Virginia Infantry
Born October 05, 1842
--- Died July 03, 1863 at age 20
1ST
Lt. Niemeyer, whose rank is quite impressive for his young age, enlisted in
April 1861. He was described as having blue eyes, light hair, and a light
complexion, and was killed at the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge very near
the Union line. He was buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery in Portsmouth, Virginia.
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