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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6QU_camp-hamilton_Hampton-VA.html
Here stood the U.S. Army's first camp on Virginia soil after secession, built in May 1861. Only the Veteran's Cemetery on County Street remains of this entrenched camp.
The influx of soldiers at Fort Monroe prompted the commander, Lt. Col. Just…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6QB_confederate-dead_Hampton-VA.html
Forward Monument:Confederate Prisoners of War who died in Federal Prison in Newport News Va between April and July 1865 are interred here.
This memorial was donated byMildred Rhodes DuncanThomas Purnell Duncan, Jr.
Front of Monument:Confeder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6Q6_newport-news-pow-camp_Hampton-VA.html
The monument that stands before you was erected in June 1900 by the members of the Magruder Camp No. 36, United Confederate Veterans, to honor the 163 Confederate soldiers reinterred at this site who had died in the POW Camp next to Camp Butler on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OG_freedoms-fortress_Hampton-VA.html
Fort Monroe was the site of Major General Benjamin F. Butler's decision in 1861 to accept escaping slaves as "contraband of war." Thousands of former slaves who cast off their bondage and sought sanctuary here called this "The Freedom Fort." The F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6O9_fort-monroe_Hampton-VA.html
Fort Monroe is the largest stone fortification ever built in the United States. Construction began in 1819 and continued for 15 years. Second Lt. Robert E. Lee served as an engineer at Fort Monroe from 1831 to 1834.
During the Civil War, Fort M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6O3_stalemate-in-hampton-roads_Hampton-VA.html
After the March 8-9, 1862, Battle of Hampton Roads, CSS Virginia went into drydock for refitting. USS Monitor guarded Union Gen. George B. McClellan's transport vessels in the York River near Fort Monroe, and the Federals reinforced the bows of fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6NP_the-old-cistern_Hampton-VA.html
One of several large cisterns shown on a map of 1834. No potable water was ever found on Old Point Comfort, although one well was sunk to more than 900 feet. The garrison had to depend on cistern water and water brought in from wells on the mainland.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6NC_the-lincoln-gun_Hampton-VA.html
Cast in 1860, this was the first 15-inch Rodman Gun. Its range was more than four miles. Weight of the projectile was over 300 lbs. during Civil War it was used to bombard Confederate batteries on Sewells Point. The gun was named for President Lin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6NB_fort-monroe_Hampton-VA.html
The fort was begun in 1819 and named for President James Monroe. It remained in possession of the Union forces, 1861-65, and from it as a base McClellan began the Peninsular Campaign, 1862. Jefferson Davis was imprisoned here, 1865-67.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6JB_confinement-of-jefferson-davis_Hampton-VA.html
In this casemate Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, was confined, May 22-October 2, 1865. As his health suffered in the casemate, he was removed to Carroll Hall in the fortress, where he remained from October, 1865, until May, 1…