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In the fall of 1862, the Federals built the first earthen battery on the mountain at the end of a towering plateau. Facing south, its guns commanded perfectly the summits of Loudoun Heights as well as Bolivar Heights. A four-sided earthwork formed the dominant feature of the battery, and a dry moat protected its exterior slope as the widest, longest, and most uniform moat on the mountain. Thirty-pounder Parrotts were the standard armament here.
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