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Fort Pocahontas is an earthwork fort constructed in 1864 by United States Colored Troops under the command of Gen. Edward A.
Archaeologists have discovered a 150-year-old "witch bottle" used to ward off evil spirits in a Civil War-era fort in ...
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Fort Monroe National Monument - Virginia
Even though Virginia had seceded from the Union in 1861, Fort Monroe stayed in Union hands for the entirety of the Civil War ...
President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...
After three slaves were granted sanctuary behind Union lines at Fort Monroe in Hampton on ... program development and coordinator for Virginia's Civil War exhibit at the Virginia Historical ...
The largest was Fort Lyon located where the Huntington ... In a book, “Army Life In Virginia, The Civil War Letters of George G. Benedict” edited by Eric Ward, there is information about ...
The public beach also offers shaded areas, restrooms, and public parking. Among Virginia’s 10,000 miles of shoreline lies a ...
CHARLES CITY, Va. -- Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of U.S. President John Tyler born 83 years after his ...
The Confederacy spared no expense defending cities like Richmond and Petersburg in Virginia ... other ideas. Fort Jackson was the site of a decisive Union victory in the Civil War portrayed ...