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Congress by the ironclad CSS (Merrimack). ( Old Cold Harbor v e r R R Chickahominy R i ) ★ St. Luke’s Church – Built in 1632, the church was a Beaver Crossroads Bluffs r k White Confederate campground. Dam Cold Harbor o 1 Creek Y House ★ 301 Gaines’ 156 Hanover Park & Fort Boykin – This star fort was the southside anchor 195 360 o n d Tunstall 606 Driving Route Mill m of the Warwick-Yorktown Line. Dabbs h Station Dispatch i c ★ House 33 156 Station ( R Driving Route Yo ung’s Mill – The earthworks located near this 613 New Kent Eltham’s 1820 tide mill were part of Magruder’s defenses. 161 609 Landing 249 Court House Confederate Water Battery, Alternate Peninsula Campaign Driving Route ★ Warwick Court House – Built in 1810, it served as Savage’s J 33 Gloucester Point. IV Corps Commander Brig. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes’ A Station 1862 Peninsula Campaign M E 60 Talleysville headquarters. The gas balloon, Constitution, was E S R I V R Richmond National Crossroads deployed at this site. 156 Battlefield Park 60 Museums and Visitor Centers ★ Battle of Lee’s Mill – These fortifications were the Visitor Center Seven RICHMOND 106 D Pines 64 More Civil War Sites scene of the April 5, 1862, engagement which prompted A Long 33 RB YT Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan to besiege Magruder’s O W Richmond Bridge N Warwick-Yorktown Line. R Parks 161 D. International 155 Matthew Jones House – This 1725 house was the home Airport 30 • CHARLES CITY R 1 D. of 1st Lt. William B. Jones and Sgt. Henry F. Jones. 301 ★ HENRICO White Oak NEW KENT Skiffes Creek – This redoubt is part of the Skiffes Museum Courtesy of Virginia War Glendale Swamp Creek Line, built to defend Magruder’s Mulberry 156 C “Encampment of U.S. Troops at Newport News, Virginia” 5 H Island- flank. ( I R C K ★ Lee Hall – This antebellum mansion was used as ic A H O M

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Harrison’s r Forest S E R N R V E Y ★ City Point e Redoubt 12 – Part of Magruder’s Williamsburg Line. Landing e R k Redoubt 12 ★ – The center of the Williamsburg (3rd) E s Cree V Qu n’ k Defensive Line and the scene of fierce fighting during 36 10 156 ee I 156 WILLIAMSBURG the . 1 156 Quarterpath R Creek 301 Road King’s ★ Battle of Williamsburg – This section of the battlefield ) X was known as the Bloody Ravine. R HOPEWELL 641 O R 10 5 Fort Magruder CO ★ T t LO Williamsburg Line – These redoubts supported the i n 199 NI Gloucester 95 Po 132 A T L Point defense of Fort Magruder as well as repelling Union y 5 Battle of Williamsburg P t A A R i K attacks against the Confederate right during the 36 Williamsburg W C 156 A M ( 295 C Line Y May 5, 1862, Battle of Williamsburg. O 31 o P l ★ A P l – J.E.B. Stuart used this historic Petersburg e 238 Yorktown Waterfront

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C e road trace while acting as a rear guard for the OLONIA L PARK Endview Battlefield WAY C Yorktown retreating Confederate army. 460 r eek 60 ley Creek ★ Wren Building – Confederate troops under Brig. Gen. rm 85 Wo encamped here prior to the May 5, 1862, Jamestown 143 Island Lee Hall

Battle of Williamsburg. Battle of Courtesy of Casemate Museum 301 1997 Copyright Virginia Historical Society, Dam No. 1 • Jamestown Island – Fortified by Confederates in 1861 M E S R Skiffes 105 “Bird’s Eye View of Fortress Monroe” J A I V ER to defend the James River approach to Richmond. E Creek IV PETERSBURG federacy ( Con R R N the Ship’s N • Eltham’s Landing – Scene of May 7, 1862, engagement of O o m S r eu 17 Point O ( f U between Union troops under Brig. Gen. William o us Battle of Q W M l e O k h Franklin and Confederate troops commanded by T Matthew Lee’s Mill P e f & o 173 Maj. Gen. Gustavus Smith. l y Jones House s d P e t Warwick e r o t u Cape ★ New Kent Court House – Confederate and Union e o

n Court House r s C NEWPORT Charles troops passed through here en route to Richmond. b R 156 u NEWS W R r g Ta lleysville Crossroads – J.E.B. Stuart passed through A • ) R R R this strategic crossroads on June 13, 1862, during his 95 ) W Young’s “Ride Around McClellan.” I R C VE K Mill RI Tunstall Station – This Richmond and York River rail- CK • R 143 A 13 I k B road station was attacked by the Confederate Cavalry. V e E e ★ R r

Drewry’s Bluff – Confederate batteries above the The Wren Building following the Courtesy of The Mariners’ Museum C James River repulse Union gun boats, including the p 60 HAMPTON 35 battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862. e Monitor, on May 15, 1862. e Watercolor by Lt. K. Sneden, D k e Big Bethel ★ Seven Pines – Scene of Joe Johnston’s attack against U.S. Topographical Engineers. e 460 BURWELLS The Mariners’ r McClellan’s army on , 1862. Gloucester BAY Museum C 17 64 s • Dabbs House – Lee’s first headquarters (June 1862) as Point Jubal A. Early r CO e 258 LO t commander of the Army of . N Brigadier General, CSA a IA L 673 W PA R YORK RIVER K Hampton ★ ★ W 10 SEVEN DAYS BATTLES A Fort Boykin Colonial National Y Virginia War ★ Chickahominy Bluffs – Served as jumping off point Historical Park Yorktown Museum Waterfront 60 “Battle between the Ironclads” for Confederate advance into Mechanicsville. P A G I V E Newport News Fort Monroe Bus A N R R ★ Beaver Dam Creek – On June 26, 1862, the Confeder- 10 POW Camp 167 Fort Wool ate army unsuccessfully attacked the Union forces 238 Monitor-Merrimack at Ellerson’s Mill on Beaver Dam Creek. 238 ISLE OF WIGHT Battle of Rip Raps Overlook (Castle Calhoun) federacy Smithfield ★ Gaines’ Mill – The largest of the Seven Days Battles, Yorktown 238 Con Congress & the of m Cumberland the Confederate forces struck Union troops under eu Monitor-Merrimack us Overlook M the command of Brig. Gen. Fitz-John Porter. Endview 634 e Harbor Cruise h T St. Luke’s f ★ o 10 Savage’s Station – This June 29, 1862, engagement y s Church e 664 t 637 r was part of the Seven Days Battles. 60 u R 17 o HAMPTON C ★ E White Oak Swamp – “Stonewall” Jackson met strong V 704 ROADS Cape Union resistance here and failed to support Confeder- Lee Hall I 337 564

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Benjamin F. Butler B ended in failure. 10 Craney E 32 A Battle of Brigadier General, USA R Island R 13 ★ E Z Malvern Hill – This , 1862, engagement was the Skiffes Dam No. 1 I I V V 60 I L last of the Seven Days Battles. Creek E Gilded eagle from the pilot- R E 460 ★ R Harrison’s Landing () – The house of the USS Smith-Briggs, D 164 105 Portsmouth Naval Peninsula Campaign came to an end when McClellan’s captured on February 1, 1864, N VIRGINIA BEACH O 17 h Hospital army arrived at this position on the James River. c NEWPORT M 17 during the Battle of Smithfield. n 58 NEWS Courtesy of Isle of Wight Museum E a 143 George Edward Pickett S r Fort Norfolk 64 ★ RELATED SITES ★ N B Olde Towne A r n 264 58 JAMES Major General, CSA N e Battle of ) t • Newport News POW Camp – Monument honors Con- RIVER 10 R s Gosport Navy Yard 44 Lee’s Mill 32 R federate prisoners who died in the nearby Union POW 60 e PORTSMOUTH 141 173 k e 337 Camp at Camp Butler, April-July 1865. Matthew Jones House o 337 W a n

k o ★ Gosport Navy Yard – The oldest U.S. Naval shipyard, R 58 c & 17 460 it was here that the ironclad CSS Virginia (Merrimack) u r d 664 was created. (Tourbytrolley and Carrie B Harbor Tour only.) t oa

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and Union armies, 1861-1865. u 64 64 351 64 464 NEWS 258 460 h 337 Portsmouth’s Olde Towne Historic District – Revolu- 166 Folly Courtesy of Riddick’s • C tionary and Civil War homes can be found in this Redoubt 12 169 .

D one-square-mile historic district. WILLIAMSBURG 143 R 149 R. K D C AD . I ) QUEENS KESHE D R R Village of V W Bus • Battle of Smithfield – Confederates repulse the Union R . LAKE LA BL r g 165 I T N u C S Y 58 b 60 R E r s Deep Creek H EXIT advance on January 31 and February 1, 1864, destroying Y C 60 CU St. John’s F t e M R OLO ER 58 P e C H O N NIAL M 351 k & E S E PAR

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B Wren Building U M Village of CIS ST. H . Virginia War Dismal Riddick’s Folly – This 1837 Greek Revival home was RAN D • F R . 104 VE N Museum A SUFFOLK Swamp Great Bridge YORK ST. 641 A D. occupied by Maj. Gen. J.J. Peck as his headquarters KE V IM O L 13 N R B Canal BOUNDARY ST. B IA during the 1863 Suffolk Siege. Quarterpath Fort EN R P EM O P CT Fort Monroe 5 Road Magruder VI • Siege of Suffolk – Lt. Gen. besieged 31 132 5 M 60 A Fort Wool 604 Maj. Gen. J.J. Peck’s 25,000 strong Union force in J E D 167 F IS Great Dismal Swamp F O W E Riddick’s Folly, an 1837 Greek Suffolk from April 11- May 4, 1863. Williamsburg R N A S . R A O V E Line Battle of W V N E Newport News A 168 Revival building, was used as a Dismal Swamp Canal – The oldest operating artificial I . • C A E CHESAPEAKE Williamsburg V K 31 K A E POW Camp E waterway in America, it provided access between B . P 17 Union hospital and headquarters 199 L A V S D E . H of Maj. Gen. J.J. Peck during the the Chesapeake Bay and the North Carolina Sounds. C . ST O Village of Deep Creek – An important commercial H A Siege of Suffolk. • 28T K Pleasant Grove A V center on the Great Dismal Swamp Canal. C E Baptist Church 60 143 . Monitor-Merrimack o Rip Raps 13 l Cemetery L Village of Great Bridge – A strategic crossing of the l Overlook • e (Castle Calhoun) N T. O A g H S 32 R T Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. 6T H

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