*Fort Magruder was the largest and most important of the line of fortifications intended to stop the enemy from getting to Williamsburg.
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*The Adams House, also known as the Whittaker House, served as Gen. Sumner's headquarters on May 5, and was the site where many of his men bivouacked the previous evening. Not recognizing that the battle was intended to be no more than a holding action for the Confederates, Sumner miscalculated and expected an attack on the Union's center, and thus kept many of those men in the area of his headquarters instead of pressing the attack.
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*The West House was used by Gen. Longstreet as his headquarters until he headed towards the battlefield.
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*The Yorktown Road, like the road from Lee's Mill and Hampton to the south, was made extremely difficult to move along by the deep mud, and made even worse after thousands of men had marched along it and churned up this mud.
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*The oddly named Cheesecake Churchs name is thought to have been a corruption of the Indian word Chiskiack, which applied to the Yorktown area.
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*The Confederates' failure to man Redoubt 14 enabled Gen. Hancock and his men to cross Cub Creek Dam and complete their flanking march against the Confederate Left in the late afternoon of May 5.
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*This road through the woods, visible on published maps of the battlefield, was constructed AFTER the battle, and thus was not available to the forces engaged on May 5.
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