Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia Finish:Rolled labeled: 1

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Two boats can be seen below the platform and there is a sketched rough outline of the rocky heights of the cove

SIR ROBERT KANE

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'The Temptation in the Wilderness'

Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia Finish:Rolled labeled: 1Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, 1862 1867. Although the state of Virginia seceded to become part of the Confederacy in April 1861, President Lincoln ordered that the garrison at Fort Monroe be reinforced to ensure it stayed in Union hands. This it did and the fort served as an important base from which several land and naval operations were launched during the Civil War. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of