The Battle of Cockpit Point, also known as Batteries at Evansport, the Battle of Freestone Point, or the Battle of Shipping Point, took place on January 3, 1862, in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the blockade of the Potomac River during the American Civil War. After victory at First Bull Run, the Confederate States Army established a defensive line from Centreville along the Occoquan River to the Potomac River.

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  • The Battle of Cockpit Point, also known as Batteries at Evansport, the Battle of Freestone Point, or the Battle of Shipping Point, took place on January 3, 1862, in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the blockade of the Potomac River during the American Civil War. After victory at First Bull Run, the Confederate States Army established a defensive line from Centreville along the Occoquan River to the Potomac River. The Confederates used the Potomac’s banks as gun positions to halt Union traffic on the river, protecting Manassas Junction to the west and Fredericksburg to the south and to close the Potomac River to shipping and isolate Washington. In October 1861, the Confederates constructed batteries at Evansport (now downtown Quantico, consisted of two batteries on the river bank, and another 400 yards inland), a CSA field battery located at the mouth of Chopawamsic Creek where it empties to the Potomac (now the Marine Corps Air Facility), Shipping Point (now Hospital Point on Quantico, number of guns unknown), Freestone Point (a CSA four-gun battery on the shore of the Potomac River, now within Leesylvania State Park), and Cockpit Point (near the current asphalt plant, consisted of six guns in four batteries, a powder magazine, and rear rifle pits, on top of a 75-foot high cliff known as Possum Nose). By mid-December, the Confederates had 37 heavy guns in position along the river. On September 25, 1861, the Freestone Point batteries were shelled by the USS Jacob Bell(Commanded by Lieutenant Edward P. McCrea) and USS Seminole, Commanded by Lieutenant Charles S. Norton. On January 1, 1862, Cockpit Point was shelled by USS Anacostia (Lieutenant Oscar C. Badger commanding) and USS Yankee (Lieutenant Eastman commanding), with neither side gaining an advantage, though Yankee was slightly damaged. Union ships approached the point again on March 9. A landing party from USS Anacostia and Yankee destroyed abandoned Confederate batteries at Cockpit Point and Evansport, Virginia, and found CSS Page blown up. The Confederates, in keeping with their general tactic of withdrawal from the sea coast and coastal islands, had abandoned their works and retired closer to Richmond, after effectively sealing off the Potomac River for nearly five months.
  • La bataille de Cockpit Point se déroula entre le 3 janvier 1862, dans le Comté de Prince William, durant la Guerre de Sécession.
  • 科克皮特角之役（英语：Battle of Cockpit Point）於1862年1月3日發生在維吉尼亞的威廉王子郡, 是在早期南北戰爭中北軍嘗試封鎖波多馬克河而發動的一場戰役。
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  • The Battle of Cockpit Point, also known as Batteries at Evansport, the Battle of Freestone Point, or the Battle of Shipping Point, took place on January 3, 1862, in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the blockade of the Potomac River during the American Civil War. After victory at First Bull Run, the Confederate States Army established a defensive line from Centreville along the Occoquan River to the Potomac River.
  • La bataille de Cockpit Point se déroula entre le 3 janvier 1862, dans le Comté de Prince William, durant la Guerre de Sécession.
  • 科克皮特角之役（英语：Battle of Cockpit Point）於1862年1月3日發生在維吉尼亞的威廉王子郡, 是在早期南北戰爭中北軍嘗試封鎖波多馬克河而發動的一場戰役。
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