Fort Monroe | Civil War Travel Guide to Virginia's Hidden Historic Fort

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<p>Today we are gonna talk about Fort Monroe.</p>
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<p>Was Fort Monroe.</p>
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<p>Right.</p>
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<p>And we've actually done two weeks in a row of Fort Monroe cuz there</p>
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<p>was so much for us to cover there.</p>
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<p>And I feel like we barely got to</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>And so this is a time for us to kind of talk about what</p>
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<p>it was like to travel there.</p>
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<p>Some of the things you didn't see behind the scenes.</p>
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<p>Things about Fort Monroe and then if you watch the videos, if</p>
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<p>Right.</p>
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<p>And if you see, if you're curious about the thumbnail, right.</p>
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<p>You probably clicked on the thumbnail of this video and it's the</p>
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<p>Fort Monroe actually is the only, and it's the largest stone fort.</p>
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<p>Built in the United States period.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>Ever.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>And it's the only active duty fort for a very long time.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>That had a moat around it.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>So it's, it's just kind of old school and unique and has a ton of history,</p>
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<p>so I'm really excited to get into it.</p>
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<p>It is a huge fort.</p>
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<p>Even when you go there.</p>
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<p>I don't even think you get a real good sense of size, but they show how you could</p>
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<p>fit all these other forts inside of it.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>From how big that it is.</p>
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<p>And it has a, a long history because of the location and where it is in</p>
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<p>Hampton, Virginia, in 1609 when the first colonizers were coming to America.</p>
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<p>It's just a very strategic location close to Jamestown on that opening of the river</p>
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<p>and the the Riverway into Virginia, right?</p>
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<p>So it's always been recognized for its strategic location.</p>
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<p>and that's why it's just has such a long history and it</p>
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<p>makes sense right?</p>
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<p>Back then they're sailing up on ships and they're like, Hey, what's the easiest</p>
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<p>place for us to land that looks like it could sustain, where we wanna be for</p>
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<p>however long it takes us to figure out what this new, exciting land is all about.</p>
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<p>And they land there and it actually used to be called old.</p>
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<p>Old Point comfort.</p>
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<p>Old point comfort.</p>
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<p>It's strategic because you could watch to who's using the waterway, right?</p>
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<p>Because these rivers take you to DC and to Annapolis, I think Up to Richmond.</p>
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<p>Up to Richmond.</p>
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<p>So these are all those waterways right there.</p>
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<p>So you could basically sit there and kind of monitor everybody</p>
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<p>who's coming in and out,</p>
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<p>if you kind of picture it in your mind, if you're not familiar</p>
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<p>with the kind of Virginia area.</p>
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<p>So again, she mentioned it's south of, south of dc it's Southern Virginia.</p>
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<p>Like we're</p>
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<p>close, almost to the border of</p>
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<p>South of DC.</p>
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<p>Not far from Norfolk, but basically almost right there on the borders.</p>
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<p>If you picture that in your mind, you can probably picture where it is if</p>
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<p>you're not great at geography like me.</p>
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<p>Yeah,</p>
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<p>and it's not on Norfolk, like it's the land mass across the water from Norfolk.</p>
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<p>Basically, you have to cross that bridge that goes underwater to get to it and.</p>
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<p>, but it stands alone in it's lone little area, Hampton, Virginia, right there.</p>
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<p>And the Ford is still there.</p>
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<p>And what's neat that we discovered when we went there</p>
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<p>is that people still live on it.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>I I wasn't</p>
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<p>expecting that.</p>
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<p>And you, you can, it's, it's not just military.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Like anybody can live on Fort Monroe and they have the old barracks and</p>
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<p>buildings and they look nice and they have that huge, you'll see</p>
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<p>in our video, they have a huge.</p>
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<p>parade field</p>
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<p>it's neat because obviously it's surrounded by a moat, so you, you</p>
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<p>do have to drive across the mote.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And so there's the, it's like a little tunnel.</p>
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<p>Oh my gosh.</p>
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<p>And so we're driving through in our, our S U V and one car, one</p>
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<p>car.</p>
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<p>It'd be like, oh, you fold in the window.</p>
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<p>So you can't imagine, you probably can't get many moving vans in there.</p>
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<p>. I, if any, if any, . . Small moving van.</p>
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<p>. , I was surprised cuz there was the moat itself or , the fort</p>
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<p>itself surrounded by the moat.</p>
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<p>But then there's also land around that.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>, which there is an old hotel.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>There's an old hotel there.</p>
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<p>That is now it, so it became later after the fort was used it became later</p>
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<p>kind of like, vacation destination cuz you're close to Virginia Beach.</p>
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<p>Right.</p>
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<p>And they built these nice vacation hotels right on the end of Old</p>
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<p>Point Comfort because you had a great vantage point right.</p>
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<p>Of the waterways in the ocean.</p>
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<p>And so the hotel, and when you see it on video, it still has its kind</p>
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<p>of art deco grandeur, but it's now like a senior assisted living center.</p>
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<p>But it looks pretty</p>
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<p>cool.</p>
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<p>But to kind of step back a little bit the, the fort started being built obviously</p>
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<p>for its location and then where a lot of people start getting interested in, it's</p>
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<p>kind of the civil war era type stuff.</p>
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<p>So</p>
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<p>the fort is named Fort Monroe cuz it's built during the presidency</p>
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<p>of President Monroe and it's President Monroe who basically</p>
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<p>says we need to build a fort here.</p>
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<p>and it comes about, like I said, it's always kind of been a strategic</p>
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<p>location and people had recognized its importance on the waterway, but</p>
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<p>during the war of 1812, the British had no problems taking over that</p>
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<p>area, and they used the lighthouse there actually to their advantage.</p>
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<p>They took the lighthouse there and we show the lighthouse in our video</p>
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<p>and they used it for their ships.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
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<p>And to, to, to protect as their own, their own lookout.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Their own lookout and to protect what they wanted to do.</p>
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<p>And basically their burning of Washington DC and it became, Apparent</p>
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<p>that we were very vulnerable, right?</p>
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<p>As a nation, we didn't have these forts built up along the Atlantic coast and</p>
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<p>here we were in a war with the, with England, and they had no problem getting</p>
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<p>to our most strategic point that protects these ma, this major waterway to some</p>
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<p>of our major cities on the East coast.</p>
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<p>And we had no way to stop them.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So after the war of 1812 was over, they decided let's start to build a fort here.</p>
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<p>And this could be one of the reasons.</p>
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<p>It's the most, it's the largest fort.</p>
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<p>Yeah, it's the most stone fort.</p>
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<p>It's massive.</p>
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<p>It has the motor around it.</p>
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<p>It could be one of those reasons cuz they really wanted to fortify this fort.</p>
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<p>One of the very unique things about it is, w who was the engineer of Fort Monroe.</p>
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<p>. And saw it through to the end of its completion was Robert E.</p>
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<p>Lee.</p>
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<p>. And we, we had planned on trying to make a little short, kind of fact about that.</p>
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<p>So Robert E.</p>
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<p>Lee actually went and was essentially stationed there.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>24 years old.</p>
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<p>. He was a West Point trained engineer.</p>
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<p>He was posted at Fort Monroe and he had just gotten married.</p>
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<p>to Mary Custis Lee.</p>
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<p>And we talk about that if you watch our Arlington video, cause we go to</p>
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<p>Arlington house, which is where he was married, and that was her ancestral home.</p>
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<p>So that became his home.</p>
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<p>And he was stationed in Fort Monroe.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So she comes down to Fort Monroe with him.</p>
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<p>Their first child is born there.</p>
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<p>So they're there from 1831 to 1834.</p>
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<p>And they're, they live in building 17.</p>
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<p>And that building is still there?</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>On Fort Monroe.</p>
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<p>It is now used by the National Park Service.</p>
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<p>but this is the beginning of this just very convoluted crossing.</p>
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<p>It's, it's, it really is just kind of center point.</p>
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<p>For a lot of early American history, especially up through the Civil War.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>So it's completed in 1834, and then during the Civil War, it's</p>
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<p>union held the entire time.</p>
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<p>Which is interesting when you think that Virginia is a Confederate state.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And, and you think about the minute that Sumner.</p>
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<p>Is basically taken from the union, and Lincoln is made aware</p>
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<p>that the the southern states are succeeding from the union.</p>
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<p>He fortifies Monroe.</p>
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<p>Yeah, because Fort Monroe, like I said, is such a strategic location</p>
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<p>to these cities along the East coast, including Washington,</p>
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<p>DC Well, and the other thing, if you, and about Fort Monroe, if we</p>
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<p>didn't mention it early on, was.</p>
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<p>It's one hell of a fort.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>There's, there's one way on.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>. So it's not like, it's like surrounded by a land.</p>
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<p>It's surrounded by water and there's kind of one aisle to get on to, to get on.</p>
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<p>So it's not.</p>
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<p>Terribly difficult to defend.</p>
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<p>And even from the water, you're not gonna be able to really take it from the water.</p>
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<p>No.</p>
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<p>So it's, it's, it's incredibly strategic</p>
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<p>and it have, it's one of the things we show in the videos, it has,</p>
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<p>like at the time was probably.</p>
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<p>Upwards of more than 50 cannons.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Around the entire fort.</p>
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<p>And one of those we showed the Lincoln Yeah.</p>
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<p>Cannon, they call it Lincoln Gun.</p>
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<p>Lincoln Gun.</p>
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<p>Which the projectile is, it's</p>
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<p>a, it's a 50,000 pound cannon.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And the projectile is 300 pounds.</p>
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<p>So the, the cannon ball,</p>
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<p>it's, it's huge.</p>
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<p>So if you watch the video, that's, that's what that, that Lincoln gun is.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>This.</p>
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<p>Fort has cannons in every opening, and then they have a huge projectile gun.</p>
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<p>So no one was taking this fort, right?</p>
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<p>This was the last thing you probably needed before to take</p>
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<p>DC or something like that.</p>
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<p>So it's never taken . And it was so safe that even Lincoln will visit in 1862.</p>
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<p>And start to plan the Battle of Norfolk, which turns out to be</p>
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<p>That's the battle of the Ironclads.</p>
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<p>That's right.</p>
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<p>And we go to the building that Lincoln stays in, which is a,</p>
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<p>it's quarters one on Fort Monroe.</p>
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<p>And actually Lafayette had visited there in 1824.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Jen was, Jen was pretty excited about that.</p>
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<p>So I got to walk out the stairs that both Lafayette and Lincoln.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Stayed in, but, so this is like the nice.</p>
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<p>Place to stay on the fort.</p>
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<p>And so that was a big part of their history, but Lincoln</p>
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<p>felt safe enough to go there.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Even when you think that Virginia is a Confederate</p>
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<p>state.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I guess I, I didn't really think about that too much.</p>
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<p>That's pretty interesting.</p>
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<p>It's interesting, like</p>
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<p>he's taking, it's a lot of like, I think bravery in a lot of ways</p>
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<p>where he's like going to places.</p>
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<p>So, so inside of, you can drive in, you can see inside of Fort Monroe</p>
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<p>and they actually have a, a pretty neat walking tour that if you get</p>
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<p>the little basic map, it gives you the numbers, you can walk around.</p>
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<p>It's it.</p>
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<p>It's not a lot of walking, but it's a decent amount.</p>
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<p>Yeah,</p>
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<p>and it's interesting, they have a lot of interesting locations on here.</p>
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<p>Like I said, the quarter's one where Lincoln planned the Battle</p>
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<p>of Norfolk and Lafayette visited, but they have building 17 where.</p>
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<p>Lee stayed and they have a chapel of the centurion there, which is</p>
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<p>basically, when you think of a fort, it's very all-inclusive.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
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<p>They have to, they people were living there, people living there.</p>
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<p>And then if you're gonna cut off the entrance and exit, you keep</p>
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<p>your, you know, your living n.</p>
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<p>all the provisions inside.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So there's a chapel inside.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
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<p>Inside the fort.</p>
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<p>And that chapel of the centurion, which is cool in itself cuz I</p>
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<p>think the centurion is cool.</p>
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<p>But Eisenhower was there.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>When his son was married there, his son got married.</p>
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<p>So when he was a general, he visited there and and.</p>
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<p>He got to see his son get married there and that chapel is still there</p>
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<p>today and they still do services today.</p>
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<p>So you could go there on Sundays.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And that's right here in the chat.</p>
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<p>Readout Productions.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>It, it, there was a lot of people there.</p>
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<p>There's, I was surprised and I was kind of, I.</p>
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<p>Pleasantly surprised, again, not as, not the history buff.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>at how much there was there, cuz there was just so much concentrated</p>
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<p>history in this one single spot.</p>
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<p>They think about it, it's been around for 400 years.</p>
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<p>They think every president has visited, maybe not the last couple,</p>
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<p>but I know that Obama was there.</p>
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<p>He's, he's the one who declared it a national historic</p>
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<p>landmark because it was an active duty army fort all the way up until 2011.</p>
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<p>So it's only been a little over 10 years that it ha that it hasn't been</p>
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<p>an active duty military installation.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>But Grant was there president Garfield I know was there.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>I mean, pretty much every president has.</p>
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<p>Stayed there at one point cuz it's so safe.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And it probably in that quarter's one, which is closed to the public right now,</p>
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<p>but they're re renovating it right now.</p>
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<p>Oh, I know.</p>
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<p>To make it open for people.</p>
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<p>So that would be very cool when they come</p>
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<p>out with all that.</p>
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<p>So, yeah.</p>
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<p>So you can do this kind of walking tour of Fort Monroe.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>, which was really, really neat.</p>
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<p>It'll take you around to the Lincoln gun, to the chapel, to the a 400 year old tree.</p>
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<p>They actually had a name for this 400 year old tree.</p>
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<p>It was pretty cool.</p>
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<p>Algermourne.</p>
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<p>Oak.</p>
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<p>. They take you over to the place where Lafayette stayed and Lincoln stayed.</p>
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<p>And then actually one of the first places you can go to is the Casem Mate Museum.</p>
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<p>. I wanna really talk about what</p>
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<p>see these in a lot of forts and.</p>
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<p>Fort McHenry had it.</p>
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<p>Any place that's gonna have a lot of like ammunition, so Cannons usually uses</p>
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<p>like a casem mate kind of architecture.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And that is a, a dome, it's a, a dome architecture and they use it like an arch.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And it's because it's just a very stable architectural feature.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And it can take a lot of weight and it can shift a little so you don't have to worry.</p>
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<p>You know where the pressure is going, but one of the great things about</p>
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<p>it, if something explodes inside of it, okay, it contains that explode.</p>
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<p>It contains the</p>
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<p>explosion</p>
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<p>so you'll see that a lot in armories.</p>
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<p>They had this arch kind of, brick structure or cement structure above them</p>
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<p>because it will contain the explosion if there's an internal explosion</p>
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<p>inside.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So, so the case Meet museum it's free.</p>
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<p>It's free as far as I</p>
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<p>know.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>You have to go over to the visitor center, get your ticket, and</p>
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<p>then go to the Casem Mate Museum.</p>
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<p>It gives you some history of the fort and then using it as living quarters.</p>
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<p>But the coolest</p>
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<p>part, the coolest, the coolest part was if you saw our.</p>
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<p>Fort Monroe video was that, it was the prison cell of Jefferson Davis.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>So after they catch Jefferson Davis, he's taken by ship to, you know, old</p>
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<p>Point Comfort where the lighthouse is, and he's disembarked from the</p>
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<p>ship and taken into Fort Monroe.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And, and, and that video's doing decently for our channel.</p>
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<p>And people have some strong opinions about Jefferson Davis.</p>
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<p>Sure.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And honestly, I read those strong opinions.</p>
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<p>To you because even at the time, he's held there for two years and he's, he's held</p>
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<p>there from 9 18 65 to 1867, and people just didn't know what to do with him.</p>
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<p>So as you remember, we talk about the end of the Civil War and</p>
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<p>Lincoln being assassinated, and then Johnson becomes president and.</p>
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<p>. This country has just been at war for four years.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And they've just brought the, the states back into the union.</p>
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<p>They really wanna do a lot of like healing and reconciliation,</p>
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<p>and they don't want a lot of this animosity and, and it's this long</p>
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<p>drawn out public trial.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>So they</p>
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<p>don't know what to do with him.</p>
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<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Should we hang him for treason because he is brought up on three charges</p>
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<p>and I read those to you in the video.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>He's brought up on the assassination of Lincoln.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>He's brought up for treason and then he's brought up and has mistreatment</p>
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<p>of troops or something like that.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Mistreatment of prisons of war.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Which they both did, and he's held there for two years and people</p>
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<p>were like, should we hang him?</p>
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<p>Should we let him go?</p>
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<p>And eventually they let him go, but with.</p>
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<p>, they evoke his citizenship.</p>
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<p>He's no longer American.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And he doesn't really have much of an issue like working through</p>
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<p>the rest of his life in the south.</p>
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<p>I mean, he is shunned upon.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And, but he can</p>
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<p>write his memoir and even like read out productions mentioned in, in the.</p>
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<p>In the chat.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>, right?</p>
<p></p>
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<p>He's talking about how unhealthy he looked.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>I showed that one picture of his end of his time there, and</p>
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<p>I believe you mentioned in the video that his was his wife.</p>
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<p>It was his wife was allowed to stay, allowed to come down because he</p>
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<p>actually got pretty sick at one point</p>
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<p>in time.</p>
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<p>The case mates, once you're in there, if you visit, it's very damp.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>It's, it's made of brick and you're on.</p>
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<p>The, , the Atlantic coast of the south, so you can imagine the humidity</p>
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<p>and just the dampness in the air.</p>
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<p>And for when we were in there, there had tons of fans trying to keep out.</p>
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<p>Yeah, the humidity e even while we were in there.</p>
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<p>But without that, you, I could see, you could get very sick of</p>
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<p>moisture, could get into your lungs.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I seen the pneumonia being rampant.</p>
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<p>So yeah, he, he was very sick towards the end of his life.</p>
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<p>So they let him off, they let him go free in 1867.</p>
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<p>And then of course he,, after he passes and I tell you that he's</p>
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<p>eventually pardoned and I think someone made a point that, although.</p>
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<p>Davis is pardoned by President Carter.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>He also pardons Lee at the same time.</p>
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<p>Oh, that's right.</p>
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<p>And I don't know if anybody knows if any other Confederates</p>
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<p>were pardoned at that time.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that'd be interesting to find out.</p>
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<p>I know those two for</p>
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<p>sure.</p>
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<p>Yeah, so the case museum, aside from just like literally hanging</p>
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<p>out in the cell where Jefferson Davis was for two years, which.</p>
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<p>, it's, it's one thing to kind of walk around an area where like, yeah, Lincoln</p>
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<p>walked over here, he walked up these steps, and then you're, you're sitting</p>
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<p>here filming in a, in a cell, whereas like the, the president of the Confederacy.</p>
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<p>Lived right here for.</p>
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<p>Looked out this window for two years, looked out this</p>
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<p>window and like slept on that</p>
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<p>bed and had to stare at that American flag, which I thought was great.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So they, they hang the American flag in his cell.</p>
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<p>A big, huge American flag.</p>
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<p>35 stars at the time.</p>
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<p>But, and that flag is still in that cell.</p>
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<p>and you can go there and see it.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>The Casem Mate Museum was, was really, really neat.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>, they had all sorts of displays on what life was like, if</p>
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<p>the officers were living Yes.</p>
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<p>They, some of them had their families with them.</p>
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<p>Probably just like their wife, not like three kids because it was small quarters.</p>
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<p>The museum itself was really neat.</p>
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<p>You can walk through, you can see all these different things.</p>
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<p>You can see more massive cannons, lots of cannons.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>All, all the ar artillery, right?</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>. And so they were, they kind of show some of the technology back then about how</p>
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<p>they manage these cannons and how they would shoot out of these case mates.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So put, keep them on their little track, little tracks, cuz you</p>
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<p>know, as a cannon fires it.</p>
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<p>Fling back and then the, you know, you're gonna pull it forward again.</p>
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<p>And they have all the tools to show you how many people it takes to</p>
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<p>fire a cannon and work a cannon.</p>
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<p>And then, A lot of these cannons were found in the moat.</p>
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<p>Yeah, because this was a working fort, so you don't think they had</p>
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<p>all these cannons in these holes while this was a working fort.</p>
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<p>Who are they using these cannons for today?</p>
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<p>Right, right, right.</p>
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<p>So when they were done, they basically threw all the cannons,</p>
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<p>just tossed 'em over the</p>
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<p>side into the,</p>
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<p>into the moat.</p>
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<p>And then when this became a national, Historic landmark.</p>
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<p>They searched the moat and brought all the cannons back up, refurbished</p>
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<p>them and set it up how it would have looked during the Civil War era.</p>
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<p>So if you're wondering like what did they just.</p>
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<p>Leave these cannons here.</p>
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<p>No, this is a working fort.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>So it's, it's a working building, you know.</p>
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<p>So that was interesting to me.</p>
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<p>But I thought Po Poe was there.</p>
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<p>Yeah, Edgar Allen Poe before Lee, so Poe was there in 1928</p>
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<p>and they have like a little spot and they talked about some of the famous</p>
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<p>soldiers that, that that kind of were posted there for a short period of time.</p>
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<p>And the</p>
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<p>connections with them.</p>
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<p>So like Edgar Allen Poe and then Icabod Crane was there.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>This is</p>
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<p>Icabod Ca Crane.</p>
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<p>The original.</p>
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<p>The</p>
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<p>original, yeah.</p>
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<p>Like the actual name Yeah.</p>
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<p>That Washington Irving uses.</p>
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<p>Yeah, because it's so funny</p>
<p></p>
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<p>we keep coming across him.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>. Yes.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>He was a part of Fort Ma Monroe.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>This is how long it has been a, a fort cuz Washington Irving's</p>
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<p>like Revolutionary War and.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>but Edgar Allen pose is there for a short time.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>He's there for a couple months, but he's there through the new year</p>
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<p>cuz he's there for 1828 to 1829.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>So he spends his new year there.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Who knows if he had watch on New Year's Eve.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So one of one, it's funny because one of the things we were gonna try</p>
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<p>to turn into like a little short video or something like that was</p>
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<p>an interesting fact about Robert E.</p>
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<p>Lee that nobody else knows.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>and you could say, well, Robert E.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Lee built the.</p>
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<p>That held Jefferson Davis.</p>
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<p>Exactly.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>. Which is, which is kind of ironic, right?</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Obviously it's many years later.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And there's, there's lots of history in between that.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>But if someone says like, Hey, you know, tell me an interesting history fact.</p>
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<p>And you could say, well, Robert E.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Lee built a prison that held Jefferson Davis that probably</p>
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<p>would kind of short circuit for a little bit, not understanding that.</p>
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<p>And you can tell 'em, well, Robert E.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Lee built it when he was a young lieutenant and, , yes.</p>
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<p>Many years later,</p>
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<p>and it's so the fort.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>has another really big historic impact during the Civil War.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>This is the first contrabands come to this fort.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>That was interesting.</p>
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<p>They used the word contrabands because during the Civil War, when enslaved</p>
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<p>would leave their plantations the men would leave to go fight the</p>
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<p>war, and they basically had no one there overseeing them anymore.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>They would leave.</p>
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<p>They could run away, they could try, you know, try to make it north.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And when they first encountered union officers, they weren't</p>
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<p>really sure what to do.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Because they weren't sure what to classify them as well.</p>
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<p>And,</p>
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<p>and because again, Fort Monroe is in.</p>
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<p>Virginia of Virginia, and it's so far south, it's probably one of the further</p>
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<p>south points that the union controlled.</p>
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<p>So when Enslave got away, it was one of the first places they could get to.</p>
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<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And they ca they came up with this contraband, this is what Lincoln did.</p>
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<p>They came up with this contraband idea.</p>
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<p>General Butler was there.</p>
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<p>And this idea that they are a spoil of war.</p>
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<p>Right?</p>
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<p>So they are something you can commandeer during war.</p>
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<p>And that's, this is starting.</p>
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<p>The proclamation.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>This is starting the 13th amendment.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>This is all precluding that conversation because they're</p>
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<p>not quite sure what to do here.</p>
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<p>And so when this becomes a contraband camp and you have the first.</p>
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<p>people who make it there, it quickly becomes a</p>
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<p>huge camp.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Harriet Tubman goes through</p>
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<p>there at some point in time.</p>
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<p>Harriet Tubman runs the hospital, the contraband hospital there.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>So, and schools start there and Freeman schools start there.</p>
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<p>And Hampton University, which is a historic black college and university is</p>
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<p>where Booker t Washington went to school.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>So it is such.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Profound connection to African American history and American history.</p>
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<p>So that is Fort Monroe, and I just think that's something everyone needs</p>
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<p>to recognize too, about that location.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>They also have the marker.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Where the first.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Africans came to Virginia.</p>
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<p>Yeah,</p>
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<p>per, per that statement.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>I encourage you to go check out the first Fort Monroe video cuz Jen</p>
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<p>kind of breaks down what they were trying to say with that marker.</p>
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<p>Although historically it might not be a hundred percent.</p>
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<p>Accurate as most</p>
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<p>people would read it.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>So it's a great conversation starter.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And I think that's important to have.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>We can't precisely measure when the first anybody were in America, but</p>
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<p>we can say when first documented.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And they do use the word documented in that marker as well.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>But I even, that's not a hundred percent accurate, but we talk about that as well.</p>
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<p>And, and if you ever get a chance, right, again, it's a lot of concentrated</p>
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<p>history in one spot, and you can actually walk on top of the fort mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So we actually went and went over to they've taken pieces of it down, but</p>
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<p>Jefferson Davis, like Memorial Park.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>They, and they.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>, it's not even a park, it's like a ramp up to the top of the fort.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>But you can walk on top of the fort.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>So if you look at pictures of it, you, there's, there's inside the fort, which</p>
<p></p>
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<p>is like all the case mates mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>there's inside the center of the fort, but then you can actually walk on top of it.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>So you can walk around the ramp parts.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>The ramp parts.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And from those ramp parts, they said you could see the battle, the ironclads.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>. I encourage you guys to check out</p>
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<p>do a good job of kind of showing you what's there, but it, it, it</p>
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<p>doesn't replace going in person.</p>
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<p>No.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>If you ever have a chance, it, it's a great way to do an afternoon.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>You could spend all day there if you really wanted to.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>And it's beautiful and.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>So the one video is just outside of the museum, and the second video is just the</p>
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<p>Casemaker Museum.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>It's just the Capeman Museum.</p>
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<p>So Fort Monroe has been around almost as long as there's been explorers landing on</p>
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<p>the shores of America for over 400 years.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>The strategic Old Point Comfort.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Was the site of enslavement, army encampments, hotel getaways, freedom from</p>
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<p>enslavement, army cadet training, and yes, even a prison cell for Jefferson Davis.</p>
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<p>This moat surrounded pocket of history has so many stories to tell, and we hope</p>
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<p>that one day you too will visit this historic landmark that is Fort Monroe.</p>
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