THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN. Share full article. April 8, 1862. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from April 8, 1862, Page 4 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN; Numerous Desertions from the Enemy. Forwardness of the Preparations for the Grand Attack. OUR YORKTOWN CORRESPONDENCE. ... April 29, 1862.

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Yorktown is commemorating the siege that never happened.It was supposed to have been the Siege of 1862, and if it had gone the way Union Gen. George B. McClellan wanted, it would have been a ...

Officially, the Battle of Yorktown lasted from September 28 to October 19, 1781. ... Yorktown, Virginia weathered another military siege. From April 5 to May 4, 1862, ...

This week the outcome of the new battle of Yorktown was still in doubt. The Park Service hoped that Hansen would come around; if he did not, he could be sued for contract violation.