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Drewry’s Bluff on the James River, a mile east, was fortified by Captain A. H. Drewry in 1862. A Union fleet attempting to pass it was driven back on May 15, 1862, and thereafter it served as a bar to attacks on Richmond by water. On June 16, 1864, Longstreet's Corps of Lee's army crossed the river there on the way to the defense of Petersburg.
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