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|image=Yorktown artillery2.jpg
|title=Battle of Yorktown (1862)
|texttitle=Battle of Yorktown
|caption=Union Army artillery battery with 13-inch seacoast mortars, Model 1861, during the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia, in 1862, during the American Civil War. Fought between April 5 – May 4, the battle ended inconclusively when the Confederate Army slipped away during the night of May 3.
|credit=Photo credit: James F. Gibson