Endview

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This traditional farmhouse was probably built for William Harwood around 1769. His great grandson, Dr. Humphrey Harwood Curtis, acquired the plantation in 1858. In May 1861, Dr. Curtis organized the Warwick Beauregards (Company H, 32d Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment) and commanded them until May 1862. Confederate Generals Lafayette McLaws and Robert Tombs used Endview as their headquarters during the early stages of the 1862 Peninsula Campaign. Union regiments camped here as part of the Federal occupation of nearby Yorktown. Dr. Curtis regained possession of Endview (also called Curtis Farm) after the Civil War and his descendants continued to live here until 1985.

Department of Historic Resources, 2005

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

John J. Curry, The Warwick Beauregards (Denbigh, Va.: Printed by the Cardwell Print. and Advertising Co., 1995); Endview, Virginia Department of Historic Resources Archives File (121-2), Richmond; History of Virginia (Chicago, New York: The American Historical Society, 1924), 6:483; Les Jensen, 32nd Virginia Infantry (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, Inc., 1990), 22, 33, 60, 79, 179; John V. Quarstein, Hampton and Newport News in the Civil War: War Comes to the Peninsula (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1998), 28-29; John V. Quarstein and Parke S. Rouse, Jr., Newport News: A Centennial History (Newport News, Va.: City of Newport News, 1996); The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Prepared Under the Direction of the Secretary of War by Robert N. Scott. 129 Vols. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889-1901), 2:188, 4:641; 9:5169-70; 11(Part III): 441 and 443, 25(Part II): 859; 33:483, 51(Part II): 256, 308.