Virginia Civil War Trails
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You are near the northern end of the Confederate defensive line built in 1861 to protect the eastern approach to Richmond. The "Williamsburg Line" stretched between the James and York rivers and consisted of fourteen forts, commonly called redoubts. This wa…
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The small redoubt in front of you is the only visual evidence of Lee Hall's military occupation by the Confederate army from May 1861 to May 1862. The antebellum mansion to your right served as a headquarters building for both Maj. Gen. John Bankhead Magrud…
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The white two-and-a-half story frame building in front of you in the distance is Endview. Endview was built circa 1760 by Col. William Harwood, Jr., who was a member of the House of Burgesses, a signer of the Virginia Resolves, and a Warwick County militia …
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"The office was full of books and papers. Some very old ones that had been written long before the Revolution by King George's officers. A guard was over them but I was lucky and got a handful of deeds ?. I have one written 1669 ?. Shortly after I got mine …
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Historic Lebanon Church, located behind you at the intersection of two strategic highways, served both the Confederate and the Union armies during the Civil War. Soon after Confederate Col. John Bankhead Magruder began organizing the Peninsula's defenses at…
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"It did not seem possible that both armies could gather inspiration from the historic memories that cluster around this memorable field. The traditions of the revolution lingered here awakening in all loyal breasts sincerest hopes for the future." - Eugene …
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In spring 1862, the Confederate heavy artillery batteries on the bluffs at Yorktown, as well as those positioned along the waterfront on both sides of the York River, effectively blocked the U.S. Navy's attempts to bypass Magruder's 2nd Peninsula Defensive …
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The monument that stands before you was erected in June 1900 by the members of the Magruder Camp No. 36, United Confederate Veterans, to honor the 163 Confederate soldiers reinterred at this site who had died in the POW Camp next to Camp Butler on Newport N…
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Here stood the U.S. Army's first camp on Virginia soil after secession, built in May 1861. Only the Veteran's Cemetery on County Street remains of this entrenched camp.
The influx of soldiers at Fort Monroe prompted the commander, Lt. Col. Justin Dimick,…
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Williamsburg, once the capital of Virginia, declined after the American Revolution. By 1861, although many colonial structures still lined the streets, the Governor's Palace and former capitol building lay in ruins. The College of William and Mary had lost …