YORKTOWN — There is nothing quite like looking at the past. Take a look through this gallery at some of the photographs of Yorktown during the Civil War.
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Photograph shows a group of African American refugees with Union soldiers in front of General Lafayette's headquarters at Allen's farm house near Williamsburg Road. (Library of Congress)
Stereograph by George Barnard circa 1862 showing an exterior view of a building used as the headquarters for Confederate General John B. Magruder in Yorktown, Virginia. Groups of people stand in the foreground.
May 1862 photo by Matthew Brady of the First Connecticut artillery park ; encamped at the former quarters of the Louisiana Tigers. (Library of Congress)
A Civil War-era photograph of the headquarters of Sarg. Gabriel. Grant & Chaplain Jones, H. Dwight of French's Brigade. 66th New York Inf. "GOVERNOR'S GUARDS"
Stereograph showing Union soldiers and supplies including stacks of cannon balls at the dock in Yorktown, Virginia. Steamships in the distance will transport the supplies to White House Landing Virginia. (Library of Congress)
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