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9285 Warwick Boulevard
Newport News, VA 23607, USA

Website: www.warmuseum.org

The Virginia War Museum offers a comprehensive review of U.S. military history since 1775 and within this context provides its visitors with a detailed survey of the Civil War.

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Yorktown, Virginia | This park possesses extensive vestiges of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
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Williamsburg, Virginia | This site is renowned as the nation's largest living history museum.
Endview Plantation
Newport News, Virginia | Built in 1769, this plantation functioned as a Confederate hospital and headquarters for Gens. McLaws and Toombs during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862.
Berkeley Plantation at Harrison's Landing
Charles City, Virginia | This historic plantation was occupied by George McClellan's Union troops in 1862.
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The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar
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