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| Union General George B. McClellan occupied Yorktown, Virginia, in May 1862. Northern forces built batteries and earthworks such as the one pictured here to protect their armies. McClellan used the Yorktown area to prepare a planned march on Richmond, the Confederate capital. | ||||||
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