Savannah.
No, it wasn't Savannah either, but there was a similarity between the city I am thinking of and Savannah. The Confederate forces abandoned it like they did Savannah.
Savannah.
Yorktown, Va.
We have a winner. Yorktown it is. !!!
In the spring of 1862 Union forces under General McClellan laid out an elaborate and massive array of artillery east of Yorktown. They got started on their artillery siege but many of the weapons never got to be used. General Joseph Johnston pulled his forces out, and moved westward to set up for battle at Williamsburg.
At the 1862 siege there was an elderly slave still living in the Yorktown vicinity that could remember hearing the cannons during the siege of 1781.
A McAurthur?
How did the "Battle of Seven Pines" come to be named that ?
How did the "Battle of Seven Pines" come to be named that ?
Because the crossroads at "Seven Pines" is where the heaviest fighting occurred?