Markers and Remains of Newport Defenses-- Part 1

From the Newport News (Va.) Department of Parks site.

Markers:

BATTLE OF DAM #1:  Newport News Park at 13564 Jefferson Avenue.    On April 16, 1862, this engagement was Union Gen. George B. McClellan's only major attempt to break attempt to break through the Confederate lines constructed by Gen. John B. Magruder.  Five miles of earthworks remain.

BATTLE OF LEE'S MILL--  180 River's Ridge Circle.  Earthen fortifications were the scene of an April 5, 1862, engagement that prompted McClellan to besiege the Confederate Warwick-Yorktown Defensive Line during the 1862 Peninsular Campaign.

--Old Secesh