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Marker ID: W71 Title: Lee's Mill Earthworks Location: Warwick Blvd. at Lee's Mill Drive, Newport News VA 23608 Description: "These earthworks were part of General John B. Magruder's second line of defense. At this site on April 5, 1862, Confederate General Lafayette McLaw's four companies of the Tenth Georgia with Captain Joseph B. Cosnahan's two batteries stopped the advance of Union General William F. Baldy Smith's two divisions of the Fourth Army Corps and Captain Charles C. Wheeler's six batteries. Several skirmishes and engagements occurred here between April 5 and May 4, 1862, at which time the Confederate forces abandoned the earthworks and withdrew to Williamsburg."   BACK

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