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Peninsula Campaign Driving Route of the Warwick-Yorktown Line ) R # MARCH UP THE PENINSULA# R c # Fort Monroe – Largest moat encircled masonry fortifi- a 360 95 te R m titu 1 ns cation in America and an important Union base for o I y A HANOVER or t st Hi campaigns throughout the Civil War. o P ry ita P 301 il # M P Fort Wool– The companion fortification to Fort Mon- y m & r A A roe. The fort was used in operations against Confeder- 2 . Enon Church .S g U H f ate-held Norfolk in 1861-1862. r o 606 k y A u s e e # e t Hampton – Confederates burned this port town b Yellow Tavern r r u N C o s to block its use by the Federals on August 7, 1861. (J.E.B. Stuart y C k Totopotomo N c 295 Monument) 643 P O • St. John’s Church – This church is the only surviving i r A C building from the 1861 burning of Hampton. e M K d Polegreen Church 627 • Big Bethel – This June 10, 1861, engagement was e 606 R r 627 U I the first land battle of the Civil War. F 628 606 N 30 VE , K R # Monitor-Merrimack Overlook – Scene of the d Bethesda E n Y March 9, 1862, Battle of the Ironclads. o Church RI # m Meadow 615 632 VE Congress and Cumberland Overlook – Scene of the h R c Bridge March 8, 1862, sinking of the USS Cumberland and USS i Cold Harbor R 156 Congress by the ironclad CSS Virginia (Merrimack). ( Old Cold Harbor er RR Chickahominy iv ) # St. Luke’s Church – Built in 1632, the church was a Beaver Crossroads R Bluffs k White Confederate campground. Dam Cold Harbor or 1 Creek Y House # Fort Boykin – This star fort was the southside anchor 301 Gaines’ 156 Hanover Park & 195 360 ond Tunstall 606 Peninsula Campaign Driving Route of the Warwick-Yorktown Line. Mill m Dabbs Dispatch ch Station # Causey’s Mill – 1866 grist mill is located near the site i House 33 156 Station (R Eltham’s Seven Days Battles Driving Route of the April 4, 1862 skirmish. 613 New Kent 161 609 Court House Landing # Young’s Mill – The earthworks located near this MEADOW R Savage’s 249 Confederate Water Battery, Alternate Peninsula Campaign Driving Route Chimborazo D. 1820 tide mill were part of Magruder’s defenses. Tredegar Iron Works Station 33 Gloucester Point. # Richmond National Talleysville 1862 Peninsula Campaign Site Warwick Court House – Built in 1810, it served as Battlefield Park 60 156 Crossroads IV Corps Commander Brig. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes’ Richmond Other Civil War Trails Site headquarters. The gas balloon, Constitution, was 60 J International Seven deployed at this site. Airport 106 A D Pines 64 33 National, State or County Park RICHMOND AR # BY Battle of Lee’s Mill – These fortifications were the M T O W scene of the April 5, 1862, engagement which prompted N Long Information or Welcome Center 161 E R D. Bridge 155 Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan to besiege Magruder’s S 5 30 CHARLES CITY R Warwick-Yorktown Line. 1 D. # Skiffes Creek – This redoubt is part of the Skiffes 301 R Darbytown White Oak I NEW KENT 895 Museum War Virginia of Courtesy Creek Line, built to defend Magruder’s Mulberry V Road Glendale Swamp C Island-James River flank. E 156 H “Encampment of U.S. Troops at Newport News, Virginia” 150 ( R I # Lee Hall – This antebellum mansion was used as R HENRICO CK i AH a headquarters building by Confederate generals c OM 10 h Malvern Hill IN Gloucester John Bankhead Magruder and Joseph E. Johnston. m Samaria Church Y 60 # o 106 RIVE n R Battle of Dam No. 1–This April 16, 1862, engagement was 609 d Drewry’s Bluff McClellan’s only effort to break Magruder’s defenses. 606 155 30 M & # Endview – This 1760 house served as a Confederate O P 614 295 R and Union hospital. e E W B t GLOUCESTER # e V Lebanon Church – This 1859 church served as a Con- A J r CHARLES CITY R I E s federate courier station and temporary headquarters J A b R 5 Y R u A 156 I for U.S. Gen. W.F. Smith. O V r 615 E CK g M S Piney R # Gloucester Point – Companion batteries to those at E 64 R 10 RR) Charles City Grove JAMES Yorktown, these defenses helped block the York River K Bermuda Shirley Court House to McClellan’s use during the Peninsula Campaign. R Hundred Plantation 5 I B # Landing CITY V 17 Yorktown – A major link in Magruder’s 2nd Peninsula Wilcox’s Landing A H 618 623 E Defensive Line and the focus of Maj. Gen. George B. errin YORK R g Sherwood 60 Y McClellan’s siege April 5-May 3, 1862. CHESTERFIELD C IVER Harrison’s r Forest SE RN R City Point e VE # Landing e Yorktown Waterfront – Once the Confederates aban- R k North Bend Redoubt 12 doned Yorktown it became a busy Union port. E ’s Cree V Queen k # 36 10 156 Redoubt 12 – Part of Magruder’s Williamsburg Line. I 156 WILLIAMSBURG Quarterpath 1 156 # R Road Creek Fort Magruder – The center of the Williamsburg (3rd) 301 King’s ) Defensive Line and the scene of fierce fighting during X R HOPEWELL Wren Building 641 the Battle of Williamsburg. O R Fort Magruder 5 CO T t LO Gloucester oin 199 NI # Williamsburg Line – These redoubts supported the 95 P 132 A T L Point y 5 P t A defense of Fort Magruder as well as repelling Union A Williamsburg R i K 36 156 W attacks against the Confederate right during the C A M ( 295 C Line Y May 5, 1862, Battle of Williamsburg. O 31 o Lebanon P l P l A e # Petersburg Church 238 Yorktown Waterfront Quarterpath Road – J.E.B. Stuart used this historic g National e COLON road trace while acting as a rear guard for the IAL PAR Endview Battlefield KW C 460 AY Yorktown retreating Confederate army. r eek 60 ey Creek ml Copyright Virginia Historical Society, 1997 Society, Historical Virginia Copyright r # eracy Wo Wren Building – Confederate troops under Brig. Gen. 85 Cou onfed rtes e C Jamestown y o f th 143 Jubal Early encamped here prior to the May 5, 1862, f T o Lee Hall he um Island M e Battle of Museum Casemate of Courtesy Battle of Williamsburg. 301 u us se M u e Dam No. 1 m h T S Skiffes “Bird’s Eye View of Fortress Monroe” o f ME R • Jamestown Island – Fortified by Confederates in 1861 f o A I 105 R t h y J V Creek E e s V e E I to defend the James River approach to Richmond. PETERSBURG C t o r R R n u Ship’s f o N e C # New Kent Court House – Confederate and Union d O e Point OS r 17 a U ( c Battle of Q y troops passed through here en route to Richmond. W O CHESAPEAKE BAY Lee’s Mill P # Drewry’s Bluff – Confederate batteries above the e 173 l James River repulse Union gun boats, including the d Warwick o Cape Court House Monitor, on May 15, 1862. n NEWPORT Charles # Seven Pines – Scene of Joe Johnston’s attack against R NEWS W R A ) McClellan’s army on May 31, 1862. R 95 W Dabbs House – Lee’s first headquarters (June 1862) as Young’s • I R C VE commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. K Mill RI 156 CK The Wren Building following the battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862. R A 13 I 143 V k B # # Watercolor by Lt. Robert K. Sneden, U.S. Topographical Engineers. e SEVEN DAYS BATTLES E e R r 60 # Chickahominy Bluffs – Served as jumping off point C Museum Mariners’ The of Courtesy 460 10 p HAMPTON 35 George Edward Pickett Jubal A. Early e Causey’s Mill for Confederate advance into Mechanicsville. e Major General, CSA Brigadier General, CSA D k # Beaver Dam Creek – On June 26, 1862, the Confeder- e Big Bethel e ate army unsuccessfully attacked the Union forces BURWELLS The Mariners’ r C 17 at Ellerson’s Mill on Beaver Dam Creek. Gloucester BAY Museum 64 s Point r # e Gaines’ Mill – The largest of the Seven Days Battles, CO 258 LO t N a the Confederate forces struck Union troops under IA L NEWPORT 673 W PA 351 R YORK RIVER 64 the command of Brig. Gen. Fitz-John Porter. K Hampton W NEWS 258 A Fort Boykin # Savage’s Station – This June 29, 1862, engagement Colonial National Y 169 Virginia War Historical Park Yorktown . Museum was part of the Seven Days Battles. D Waterfront R A 60 “Battle between the Ironclads” K P G IVE Newport News Fort Monroe C A # I Bus R R White Oak Swamp – “Stonewall” Jackson met strong D. N V W BL 10 POW Camp Y N 167 Fort Wool Union resistance here and failed to support Confeder- R E CU St. John’s F 238 60 ER ate attacks at Glendale. Lebanon M 351 60 Church k Monitor-Merrimack Rip Raps Church 238 17 e Battle of # Glendale – At this crossroads on June 30, 1862, e Overlook HAMPTON Hampton r Smithfield (Castle Calhoun) Yorktown 238 664 C Congress & Lee’s greatest attempt to destroy McClellan’s army History 143 l l Cumberland ended in failure.
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