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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YLN_battle-of-big-bethel_Hampton-VA.html
The Battle of Big Bethel was, for most of the participants, their first experience with warfare. Officers and enlisted men on both sides often wrote of details that in fights to come would not merit a mention.
Union Gen. Ebenezer W. Pierce, the e…
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As the Confederates here tried to burn the Zouaves out of the buildings that stood in front of you, the last act of the battle unfolded to your left across the creek. The "New England Battalion" (1st Vermont, 4th Massachusetts, and 7th New Yo…
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For the Federals, the Big Bethel expedition ended in complete failure. Casualties totaled 76: 18 killed, 53 wounded, and 5 missing. The Northern press blamed Gen. Benjamin F Butler for ordering his troops into battle with poor preparation and for …
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Although Confederate Col. John B. Magruder and his forces won the Battle of Big Bethel, they could not stem the Federal tide for long. On June 15, 1861, within a week of the battle, a huge Sawyer rifled cannon mounted at Fort Calhoun (Fort Wool) o…
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The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was established by Congress in 1915 to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight." The NACA created the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory at nearby Langley Fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EFW_chesterville-plantation_Hampton-VA.html
One mile north is Chesterville, birthplace of George Wythe (1726-1806), a prominent Virginia attorney, judge, legislator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Wythe inherited the family plantation in the 1750s and operated it until the 1…
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Bethel Church moved to this location from Hampton in 1842. The original church built here—the third Bethel Church—was destroyed during the Civil War. The individuals interred here were members of the Big Bethel Baptist Church congregat…
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Bethel 1861
To commemorate the Battle of Bethel, June 10, 1861. The first conflict between the Confederate and Federal land forces and in memory of Henry A. Wyatt, Private Co. A, 1st Regiment North Carolina Volunteers. The first Confederate sol…
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Dedicated on the150th anniversaryBattle of Big BethelUnion regiments engaged:1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th (Duryee Zouaves)& 7th New York4th Mass. & 1st Vermont2nd U.S. ArtilleryUnion losses:18 killed, 53 wounded, 5 MIATo their everlasting memoryJune 10, 2011
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This is the site of the first land battle of the Civil War in present-day Virginia. During the spring of 1861, Federal officials took steps to secure Fort Monroe, which occupied a strategically vital position at the mouths of the Chesapeake Bay an…