How many people died in the Battle of Yorktown?

Answer 1

All I kow is I'm afraid of that area because it's haunted with the ghosts of thousands of dead unburied men of war.

Answer 2

The Battle of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.

Marching from Fort Monroe, Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac encountered Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder's small Confederate army at Yorktown behind the Warwick River. Magruder's theatrics convinced the Federals that his works were strongly held. McClellan suspended the march up the Peninsula toward Richmond, ordered the construction of siege fortifications, and brought his heavy siege guns to the front. In the meantime, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston brought reinforcements for Magruder. On April 16, Union forces probed a weakness in the Confederate line at Lee's Mill or Dam No. 1, resulting in about 309 casualties. Failure to exploit the initial success of this attack, however, held up McClellan for two additional weeks, while he tried to convince his navy to maneuver the Confederates' big guns at Yorktown and Gloucester Point and ascend the York River to West Point, thus outflanking the Warwick Line. McClellan planned for a massive bombardment to begin at dawn on May 4, but the Confederate army slipped away in the night toward Williamsburg.

The battle took place near the 1781 siege of Yorktown, the last battle of the American Revolutionary War in the east.

Answer 3

I'm assuming you are referring to the Revolutionary War battle. I would venture to guess that not many died. Cornwallis surrendered his army, and Washington let him and his men leave peacefully. They seiged the city (with the help of the French navy) for a while, so if anyone died it would have been during that time.