The Battle of Yorktown or siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Marching...
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within Yorktown Yorktown, Texas Yorktown, Virginia Siege of Yorktown (1781), during the American Revolutionary War Siege of Yorktown (1862), during...
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Revolutionary War, it was the site of negotiations for British General Charles Cornwallis's surrender at the Siege of Yorktown. The house was erected around...
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the 1862 Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War (1861–1865), the town was captured by the Union following the Siege and Battle of Yorktown. It was...
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5th U.S. Artillery, Battery A (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion)
the American Civil War. The unit fought at Yorktown, the Seven Days, Antietam, and Fredericksburg in 1862. The battery fought at Norfleet House and Suffolk...
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Union Army Balloon Corps (category Aviation units and formations of the United States Army)
a hand-selected team of expert aeronauts served at Yorktown, Seven Pines, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and other major battles of the Potomac River and...
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Charles Seaforth Stewart (category United States Army Corps of Engineers personnel)
during the Siege of Yorktown (1862); assistant engineer during the Battle of Williamsburg (1862); and reconnoitering with the advance party of the forces...
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War of 1862, Navajo Wars, and Texas–Indian wars. This is a chronological summary and record of every engagement between the troops of the Union and of the...
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Kittanning, Pennsylvania (category Pennsylvania placenames of Native American origin)
the unit participated in the Siege of Yorktown (1862) as well as the Battle of Plymouth (1864), during which most of the regiment was captured. By the...
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direction of Richmond, Virginia. When Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston unexpectedly withdrew his forces from the Warwick Line at the Siege of Yorktown the...
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