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Magruder's Defenses

James City County · 3 mile southeast of Williamsburg · location approximate

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Here is a redoubt in the line of Confederate defenses, built across the James-York peninsula in 1861-62 by General John B. Magruder.

1948 text, presented as a historical document.

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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)

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