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The Battle of Malvern Hill was fought across several very large and productive farms, and that agricultural landscape helped shape the course of the battle. Stacks of recently harvested wheat offered feeble shelter to men of both sides, farm buildings became battlefield landmarks, and troops used unimproved farm roads to move across the battlefield, while some men no doubt found protective cover in well-worn roadbeds. By 1864 natural cover became less important, as soldiers routinely constructed earthworks everywhere they stopped.
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