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Into the "Bottle"

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After the battle of Drewry's Bluff on May 16, 1864, the Union Army of the James retired across Proctor's Creek in this vicinity and turned east into the Peninsula between the James and Appomattox Rivers, where Confederate forces bottled it up.
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