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Battle of Big Bethel (387 words) |
 | The first attempt began in late May, 1861, before the first land battle between Confederate and Yankee forces at Phillipi, when General Benjamin Butler [US] advanced to Fort Monroe with a force of just under 5,000 men. |
| Although command was divided between Colonels Daniel Harvey Hill (Yorktown) and John Bankhead Magruder (Big Bethel), it was Magruder who had established the positions on the peninsula. |
| The garrison at Little Bethel was warned of the Union approach by signal shots from the pickets, but the overpowering Union force flushed the Rebels there and drove them back the entrenchments established at Big Bethel. |
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