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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
irteen and a half miles. The Confederate left was formed by the fort at Yorktown, the water batteries of which, with the guns at Gloucester Point, on the opposite bank of the York, barred the passage of that river; the right, by the works on Mulberry Island, which were prolonged to the James. Warwick River, running nearly across the Peninsula from river to river, and emptying into the James, heads within a mile of Yorktown. Its sources were commanded by the guns of that fort, and its fords ha of the Army of the Potomac before his position was, according to Magruder's own testimony, eleven thousand men. More than half this force, however, was on garrison duty. I was compelled, says he, to place in Gloucester Point, Yorktown, and Mulberry Island, fixed garrisons, amounting to six thousand men. So that it will be seen that the balance of my line, embracing a length of thirteen miles, was defended by about five thousand men. Magruder's Official Report: Confederate Reports of Battle