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First Land Battle of Civil War at Big Bethel
The June 10 1861 clash at Big Bethel on the Virginia peninsula near Yorktown marked the first land engagement of the Civil War. Confederate victory boosted southern morale as Majors Hill and Magruder led the defense while Union Maj. Winthrop fell in battle.
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Big Bethel
Virginia
York
James Rivers
Richmond
Co. Wly
Bethel
South
John’ Bankhead Magruder
Daniel Harvey Hill
Vicksburg
Miss
William Howard Russell
London Times
Fortress Monroe
Great Bethel
John B. Jones
War Department
Baltimore
Bethe
Mary Boykin ‘Chesnut
Manassas
Magruder
Prince John
Yorktown
1St
North Carolina Infantry
North Carolina Military Institute
Gruder
Hill
Hampton
Monroe
George Scott
Scott
Enroute
Benjamin F. Butler
Fortress
Theodore Winthrop
Winthrop
Little Bethel
James River
Butler
Ebenezer W. Pierce
Napoleon
New York
Boston
Maj
Yale
Connecticut