Lee’s Mill Earthworks - Newport News VA
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Don.Morfe
N 37° 10.173 W 076° 33.834
18S E 361155 N 4114826
Marker Location: Warwick Blvd. (U.S. 60), Newport News VA. Marker Number: W-71
Waymark Code: WM18MCD
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/22/2023
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Lee’s Mill Earthworks-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.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1886
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Department of Conservation & Human Resources
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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