Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Fortress Monroe” in chapter 5 of Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1.:
... have a vessel-of-war (the Brooklyn) held in readiness at Norfolk, and I will send three hundred men in her, from Fort Monroe to Charleston.
Scott replied that so many men could not be spared from Fortress Monroe , but might be taken from New York. No doubt it was Floyd's intention, had the President ordered re-enforcements to Charleston, to take them from the already small garrison in Fortress Monroe.
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| † | Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) | 7,630 | 92 | 276 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
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