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| Virginia, Hampton — W 94 — Freedom’s Fortress | | | 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 First and Second Regiments of U.S. Colored Cavalry and Battery B. Second U.S. Colored Light Artillery, were raised here during the Civil War. In 1865, the Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees (“Freedmen’s Bureau”) established its state headquarters here. — Map (db m10366) | | Virginia, Hampton — Stalemate in Hampton Roads — In a “big glass case” — 1862 Peninsula Campaign | | | 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 fast steamers to ram Virginia if she ventured into the Chesapeake Bay. The Confederates concocted a plan (but did not execute it) to disable Monitor’s crew after reading a report in Scientific American: immobilize the turret, . . . — Map (db m10351) | | Virginia, Hampton — No. 85-W — Wythe’s Birthplace | | | Eight miles north George Wythe, Revolutionary Leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born, 1726. — Map (db m10634) |
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