3-009-078 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Civil War in America: camp of the Confederate Marines at Drury's [sic] Bluff, on the James River - from a sketch by our special artist, 1862. '[This camp is] stated by our Artist to be one of the most important posts of the Confederates'. The Battle of Drewry's Bluff, also known as the Battle of Fort Darling, or Fort Drewry, took place on May 15, 1862, in Chesterfield County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.