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English: During the First Battle of Lexington, Confederate troops roll water-soaked hemp bales as a mobile breastwork.
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From p. 337 of the 1887 book 'Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon “the Century War Series"', volume 1. Uploaded by the British Library to Flickr here. Cropped.

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Author Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel (Book authors).

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