You searched for City|State: newport news, va
Page 12 of 14 — Showing results 111 to 120 of 137
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM77I_one-gun-battery_Newport-News-VA.html
The twelve miles of Confederate defenses followed the course of the Warwick River one mile from Yorktown to Mulberry Island. Dam No. 1, the mid-point, was protected by this one-gun battery mounting a 12-pound howitzer. In addition, a 6-pound smoot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6TO_james-a-fields-house_Newport-News-VA.html
James Apostles Fields was born into slavery in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1844. During the Civil War, Fields and his brother George escaped to Hampton, where in 1862 they found refuge as "contrabands of war" at Fort Monroe. James Fields served a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6TL_james-a-fields-house_Newport-News-VA.html
James A. Fields acquired this late-Victorian Italianate-style brick house in 1893. Fields, born into slavery in Hanover County, escaped in 1862 and became a contraband of war. He graduated in 1871 from what is now Hampton University and taught sch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OV_lebanon-church_Newport-News-VA.html
Historic Lebanon Church, located behind you at the intersection of two strategic highways, served both the Confederate and the Union armies during the Civil War. Soon after Confederate Col. John Bankhead Magruder began organizing the Peninsula's d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OT_warwick-court-house_Newport-News-VA.html
"The office was full of books and papers. Some very old ones that had been written long before the Revolution by King George's officers. A guard was over them but I was lucky and got a handful of deeds ?. I have one written 1669 ?. Shortly after I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OS_endview_Newport-News-VA.html
The white two-and-a-half story frame building in front of you in the distance is Endview. Endview was built circa 1760 by Col. William Harwood, Jr., who was a member of the House of Burgesses, a signer of the Virginia Resolves, and a Warwick Count…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OO_lee-hall_Newport-News-VA.html
The small redoubt in front of you is the only visual evidence of Lee Hall's military occupation by the Confederate army from May 1861 to May 1862. The antebellum mansion to your right served as a headquarters building for both Maj. Gen. John Bankh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OD_skiffes-creek_Newport-News-VA.html
The redoubt before you is one of five earthworks built by the Confederates to help defend the Mulberry Island/James River flank of Maj. Gen. John Bankhead Magruder's 2nd Peninsula Defensive Line. This series of redoubts (of which only two remain) …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OC_battle-of-lees-mill_Newport-News-VA.html
The fortifications that appear before you are all that remain of the extensive Confederate fortifications defending the Warwick River crossing at Lee's Mill.
After an uneventful march up the Great Warwick Road through Young's Mill on April 4, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OB_youngs-mill_Newport-News-VA.html
The mill located behind you is one of the few remaining tide mills on the Peninsula. In the woods across the private road to your left are several redoubts and rifle pits. These fortifications are all that remain of the Confederate 1st Peninsula D…