Lord Cornwallis Returns to Yorktown 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM English actor Howard Burnham for two presentations of his acclaimed one-man show "One Battle May Give Us America, or Never Play Hockey with a Bishop: Lord Cornwallis in the South, 1780-81." more...
Saturday 5/24/2008
Civil War Weekend Tactical demonstrations, encampments and a Confederate field hospital interpret the role Yorktown played during the Peninsula Campaign. more...
Sunday 5/25/2008
Civil War Weekend Tactical demonstrations, encampments and a Confederate field hospital interpret the role Yorktown played during the Peninsula Campaign. more...
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Did You Know?
During the Civil War, 632 Union dead were buried in the heart of the 1781 battlefield. In 1866 this cemetery became a national cemetery. Within a 50 mile radius, the remains of over 1500 Union soldiers were disinterred from their war burials and honorably placed in the Yorktown National Cemetery.