Statistics for occurrence #1 of “York River” in chapter 6 of Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A.:
...ril, after much delay on the road, and found that Rodes and Kershaw had been sent to General Magruder on the Peninsula, to which point I was also ordered with my own brigade, part going by the way of York River , and the rest by the way of James River in vessels towed by tugs.
My trains and artillery moved by land from Orange CourtHouse.
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