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Siege of Yorktown

Confederate Commander

Maj. Gen.

John B. Magruder

Forces Engaged:

Killed: 468

Wounded: 1442

Captured or Missing: 2283

Total: 4193

Confederate Officers

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Col. Turner Ashby

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Confederate Order of Battle

 

Confederate Official Records

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April 5 - May 4, 1862

York County and Newport News, Virginia

Inconclusive

Peninsula Campaign (March-September 1862)

National Park Service

Yorktown in the Civil War

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American Battlefield Trust

Yorktown

Yorktown – An Article

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American History Central

The Siege of Yorktown, 1862

Siege of Yorktown Facts

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Warfare History Network

Army of the Potomac Flounders in Drive for Richmond

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WarHistory.org

The Second Siege of Yorktown – 1862 Part I

The Second Siege of Yorktown – 1862 Part II

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New York Times

April 8, 1862

April 9, 1862

April 20, 1862

April 28, 1862

April 29, 1862

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Harper's Weekly

April 26, 1862

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Union Commander

Maj. Gen.

George  B. McClellan

Forces Engaged:

Killed: 288

Wounded: 975

Captured or Missing: 997

Total: 2260

Union Officers

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Col. Nathan Kimball

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Union Order of Battle

 

Union Official Records

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Bailey, Ronald H., ed. Forward to Richmond McClellan's Penisular CampaignThe Civil War Volume 12 of 27. Alexandria, VA:

          Time-Life Books, 1983. p 91-127

Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1967. p 952-953

Current, Richard N., ed. "Yorktown, Virginia." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. p 1752

Hotchkiss, Jed. Virginia Volume III Part I Confederate Military History Volume III of XII. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing, 1899.

          National Historical Society, 2008. p 123-151

Katcher, Philip. Pride of the South Confederate Leaders of the Civil War Minnetonka, MN: Osprey Publishing, 2005. p 108

------------------- Warriors of the North Union Leaders of the Civil War. Minnetonka, MN: Osprey Publishing, 2005. p 29-31

Sears, Stephen W., ed. The Civil War The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: Library of America, 2012,

          p 354-357

Swinton, William. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. Secaucus, NJ: Blue & Grey Press, 1988. p 101-112

Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964. 

------------------- Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992.

Webb, Alexander, S. The Peninsula McClellan's Campaign of 1862 Campaigns of the Civil War - III.  New York: Charles &

          Scribner's & Sons, 1881-1883. rpt. National Historical Society, 2009. p 35-68

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