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Dead Confederate Soldier-Devils Den
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A soldier lies dead between two larger boulders. Small stones are stacked between the two boulders most likely to make a good hiding and shooting spot for the sharpshooter. A rifle is rests on these piled rocks.

Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, [LC-B8171-7942 DLC]

This photograph is titled "The home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg" In Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (Reprint; New York : Dover Publications, Inc. 1959), plate 41.

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