Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . orian, a larger and more pretentious fort was fortifications were augmented from time to time,and in 1813 the garrison numbered 450 men, who madea gallant defense against the invasion of the Britishunder Admiral Cockburn. Outnumbered, however, theAmericans were forced to retreat. The present fortifications, commenced in 1817 andcompleted in 1875, embrace a parapet wall a mile anda quarter long, enclosing eighty-six acres, and costing$2,258, The fortress is partially was
Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . orian, a larger and more pretentious fort was fortifications were augmented from time to time,and in 1813 the garrison numbered 450 men, who madea gallant defense against the invasion of the Britishunder Admiral Cockburn. Outnumbered, however, theAmericans were forced to retreat. The present fortifications, commenced in 1817 andcompleted in 1875, embrace a parapet wall a mile anda quarter long, enclosing eighty-six acres, and costing$2,258, The fortress is partially washed by the ^-44 — — 45 — waters of Hampton Roads, and separated from themainland by a wide and deep moat. All the latest dis-appearing guns, and modern machinery of war are herein evidence. During the Civil War the garrison aidedthe Federal men-of-war, the battery at the Rip Rapsresponding, in the famous battle of the Monitor andMerrimac. The fortress, one of the best equipped in America,is the chief artillery station of the United States gov-ernment, and is in reality a practical school for the. Copyright, 1906. by Cheyne StudioMOAT, FORTRESS MONROE army and navy. It has the longest line of fortifica-tions in the world, and is ranked next to Gibraltar inimportance. Oct. 31, 1828, Edgar Allan Poe, who had enlisted inthe army as Edgar A. Perry, was transferred fromBattery H. of the First Artillery at Fort Moultrie,South Carolina, to Fortress Monroe. He was made — 46 — company clerk and assistant in the commissariat de-partment, and later promoted to the rank of sergeantmajor. April 15, 1829, lie was honorably dischargedwith the highest encomiums from the officers underwhom he had served. On the spacious parade grounds may be seen themorning and evening drills of the soldiers, and in thepark, and along the walks are many interesting guns,cannon-balls and other relics from the wars of thepast, it was here that Jefferson Davis, the Presidentof the Confederacy, was confine
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