Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Yorktown” in chapter 5.24 of Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2.:

... Richmond not to be in a defensive position, as Mr. Davis supposes, but to fall with its whole force upon McClellan when the Federal army was expecting to besiege only the troops it had followed from Yorktown . If the Federal army should be defeated a hundred miles away from its place of refuge, Fort Monroe, it could not escape destruction. This was undoubtedly our best hope [see maps, pp. 167 and 188]...
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Yorktown (Virginia, United States) 5,134 156 356 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (Arkansas, United States) 16 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (Pennsylvania, United States) 5 0 1 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (Illinois, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (Indiana, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (Iowa, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (Kentucky, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (Maryland, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (Missouri, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (New Jersey, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (New Mexico, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (New York, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (North Carolina, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (South Dakota, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (Tennessee, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Yorktown (Texas, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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