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Fort Monroe is the largest stone fortification ever built in the United States. Construction began in 1819 and continued for 15 years. Second Lt. Robert E. Lee served as an engineer at Fort Monroe from 1831 to 1834.

During the Civil War, Fort Monroe played an important strategic role for the Union because of its proximity to the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, and the James and York rivers. The fort also sits on the southern tip of the James/York Peninsula, a strategic route to Richmond. The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron used the fort as a base and several amphibious expeditions to capture Confederate ports were organized from Fort Monroe.

Fort Monroe was the only Union controlled fortified base in the Upper South and it soon became known as the “Freedom Fort” by blacks who sought escape from bondage. Brig. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler’s decision while commanding Fort Monroe in May 1861 to declare escaping slaves as “contraband of war” was the Civil War’s first step towards it becoming a war about freedom.

Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan used Fort Monroe as his primary base for the Peninsula Campaign’s first phase. President Abraham Lincoln came to the fort in May 1862 hoping to further cooperation between the army and navy and increase the campaign’s pace. While here, President Lincoln formulated the plans for the capture of Norfolk, which would cause the eventual destruction of the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (Merrimack) .

Fort Monroe continued to serve as an important Union base throughout the war. The war’s last army-navy amphibious operation against Fort Fisher in North Carolina was launched from here. Lincoln returned to Fort Monroe once again in February 1865 to attend the Hampton Roads Peace Conference. This conference, actually held on board a steamer in Hampton Roads harbor, failed to restore peace. Jefferson Davis, the former Confederate president, was imprisoned at Fort Monroe following the war’s conclusion.

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Michael has a BA in History & American Studies and an MSc in American History from the University of Edinburgh. He comes from a proud military family and has spent most of his career as an educator in the Middle East and Asia. His passion is travel, and he seizes any opportunity to share his experiences in the most immersive way possible, whether at sea or on the land.

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Fort Monroe, Virginia (also known as Fortress Monroe ) is a military installation located at Old Point Comfort on the tip of the Virginia Peninsula at the mouth of Hampton Roads on the Chesapeake Bay in eastern Virginia in the United States. (757)-788-3391

The current moated irregular hexagon-shaped stone fortress is the largest in the United States. (Fort Jefferson in Florida is bigger in height and potential armament). This National Historic Landmark was named after President James Monroe, and was designed to hold 200 guns (380 were originally called for). With the addition of the Water Battery casemates the number increased to 412. It was garrisoned in 1823 and has been continuously occupied since then. Prior to 1832 the official name was Fortress Monroe. Construction was completed in 1834. This is one of four southern permanent forts that was never taken by the Confederacy.

Fort Monroe's Casemate Museum is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 7 days per week. Admission is free and the facility is handicapped accessible.

The Museum is closed New Years Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Guided tours for pre-formed groups of 10 or more (school groups grade 3 and above) are available with a two-week notice.

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The name “Casemate Museum” is somewhat misleading, for it sounds like you are about to enter a museum dedicated to casemates, which are fortified structures from which guns (cannon or other artillery) are fired. However, that’s not it at all. The name comes from the simple fact that the museum is housed in the casemates of Fort Monroe. When the museum opened in 1951 it consisted only of the room where Confederate President Jefferson Davis was held prisoner for charges of treason after he was captured when the Civil War ended. Since then it has expanded to cover the entire history of Fort Monroe.

Diorama demonstrates the traditional use of a fort’s casemates

The Casemate Museum is open daily between the hours of 10:30 AM and 4:30 PM from March through December. It is closed on Mondays in January and February, but open the other days of the week. It is also closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Day, and New Year’s Day.

Tours of the museum for individuals are self-guided. There is no fee. Guided tours are available only for groups of 10 or more people and must be booked two weeks in advance. There is a fee for group tours ($3/person). Tours are not conducted by the National Park Service, but by the Fort Monroe Authority. For information, visit the Casemate Museum web page.

The Casemate Museum tells not only the story of Fort Monroe from its construction in 1819 until its closure in 2011, but also the history of Point Comfort, the area of land that the fort now sits on; a place recognized for its military significance since the early days of British colonialism. Exhibits tell the story of the first forts built on the peninsula.

Model of what the first fort on Point Comfort might have looked like

Although Fort Monroe was not built until after the War of 1812, the museum dedicates a good deal of real estate to the war with England, and you will learn way more about this somewhat forgotten chapter in American History than you will, or did, in high school history class. The War of 1812 is part of the Fort Monroe story because it is what led to the construction of Fort Monroe. When the war started there was no fort at Point Comfort. The last fort had been destroyed by a hurricane in 1749 and was never replaced. As a result, the English could easily sail the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads waters and terrorize the coastal towns of the United States unhindered.

British siege mortar that was captured during the War of 1812

After the war, President Monroe decided that it was time to upgrade America’s coastal defenses, the third incarnation of upgrades since the nation was founded. The plan to build many new coastal defense forts began in 1819, and the first fort to begin construction was Fort Monroe, which was named for the President. The fort was deemed complete enough to begin service in 1834, though construction projects continued for years afterward. A young Robert E. Lee, newly graduated from West Point with a degree in engineering, was stationed at the fort in 1831 and oversaw its last years of construction.

Model of Fort Monroe

While the fort began operation during the 1830s with the Indian wars, the most important chapter in its history is that of the Civil War. It was one of the very few southern forts that was never taken by the Confederates. Though the fort did not see much actual action, many military campaigns of the war were launched from here. Much of the museum focuses on the Civil War years, including two of the most memorable events in the fort’s history. One was the decision of fort commander Major General Benjamin Butler not to return three run-away slaves to their southern owner. The owner claimed the slaves should be returned as outlined by the Fugitive Slave Act. Butler countered that since Virginia was no longer part of the United States that the law did not apply to it and that the slaves were therefore “contrabands of war.” Word got out, and every run-away slave in the area tried to reach Fort Monroe.

Exhibits on the ex-slave community that formed at the fort

The second major event took place shortly after the war. While officers in the Confederate Army were pardoned for their roles in the treasonable war, civilian leaders were not. Confederate President Jefferson Davis was on the run the moment the war ended, but Union soldiers finally caught up with him on April 26, 1865. A modern day equivalent would be the hunt for Sadam Hussein, who was eventually found hiding in a hole. The fort’s role in all of this is that Davis was jailed in one of its casemates for nearly five months until being moved to better quarters at the fort. The casemate had been converted into living quarters for officers before the Civil War and no longer served as a fortification for firing artillery. Today, guests can enter the room and see it decorated as it was when Davis was held here. Davis was jailed at Fort Monroe until May 1867. After supporters paid a $100,000 bond, Davis was released and charges were eventually dropped.

Room where Davis was held prisoner when he first arrived at Fort Monroe

The US Flag that was hung in Davis’s cell to remind him of the Confederate defeat

Other notable events in the fort’s history are Edgar Allen Poe’s stationing at the fort in the late 1820s and the battle between ironclads CSS Virginia and USS Monitor, known as the Battle of Hampton Roads. Those stationed at the fort had press box seats for the battle that changed naval history.

Exhibit on Edgar Allen Poe’s stay at Fort Monroe

Museum exhibit on the Battle of Hampton Roads

After the Civil War the fort took an active role in training, becoming the military’s main school for the study of artillery. The Casemate Museum also tells this story and features exhibits on the artillery school, the instructors (many of the streets in the fort and surrounding town are named for these men), and the life of cadets, officers, and their families. The Artillery School remained open until 1898 when the Spanish-American War (April -December 1898) started and the U. S. Army needed its student-soldiers on the battlefield.

Diorama depicting Emory Upton, Superintendent of Theoretical Instruction at Fort Monroe’s Artillery School from 1877-1880

Diorama of a cadet at the artillery school with a painting by Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum, a prominent military artist, in the background

The nation’s fourth upgrade to its coastal forts started in the late 1890s and was known as the Endicott System, named for the man who proposed the plan, Secretary of War William Endicott. Fort Monroe received many new upgrades including “disappearing guns.” When shot, the recoil caused the carriages for these 10- and 12-inch guns to disappear below the fort’s walls, allowing the soldiers to reload without being exposed to enemy fire. Once loaded, the guns were raised back up to the top of the walls and fired again.

Model of a “disappearing” gun

From the early 1900s until the fort was closed in 2011, its primary mission was again training, breaking from this role only during the World Wars. The later part of the museum has exhibits on the various training schools that evolved as technologies changed, as well as on life at the base, including an exhibit on the Fort Monroe Club, the officers’ club at the fort. The information panels contain a number of interesting tales of events that went on during the club’s 100+ years of existence.

Diorama depicting the Fort Monroe Club–bottles on the shelf were found in the fort’s moat

Artifacts from past lives at Fort Monroe

Information panel on the Decommission Ceremony in 2011

There is also a 9-minute film about Fort Monroe that loops continuously. Another interactive exhibit is an animated light map that shows the range of the guns of the many forts around the Chesapeake Bay and how the waters were once completely covered by protective fire.

Small theater shows the 9-minute park film

The Casemate Museum is a fairly large museum. To read and see everything takes about three hours. Of course only a nut like me would stand and read everything. Most people stroll through in a half hour. I even saw some cruise right through as if they were going for a walk in the neighborhood. My suggestion for an abbreviated tour is to catch the film and animated map and to at least stop and see the Davis prison cell.

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For almost 200 years, Fort Monroe has guarded the navigation channel between the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads — the natural harbor, or roadstead, at the confluence of the Elizabeth, the Nansemond and the James rivers. Surrounded by a moat, the seven-sided star fort is the largest stone fort ever built in the United States.

One way to see Fort Monroe indepth is via a segway tour. The segway tour begins at the historic old firehouse just outside of the Main Gate of Fort Monroe. The tour takes you throughout the fort, as well as around the outside. The tour takes you on a journey through the vast history of the fortress.

Even during the Civil War, Fort Monroe stayed under Union control, despite Virginia becoming part of the Confederate States of America. It became notable as a historic and symbolic site of early freedom for former slaves under the provisions of contraband policies.

During that time, the fort became the birthplace of the Civil War-era freedom movement when three enslaved men escaped the Confederate Army at Sewells Point and fled in a small boat to Fort Monroe. Union commander General Benjamin Butler refused to return the slaves calling them “contraband of war.” General Butler’s contraband policies led to the Emancipation Proclamation.

For two years thereafter, the former Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, was imprisoned at the fort. His first months of confinement were spent in a cell of the casemate fort walls that is now part of its Casemate Museum, which chronicles the military history of Fort Monroe from the construction of Fort Algernourne, the first defensive fortification at the site in 1609, through the last major command to be headquartered at Fort Monroe, the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command.

The museum highlights the 1861 “Contraband of War” decision that granted three enslaved men, and the thousands who followed, sanctuary at Fort Monroe, earning it the nickname “Freedom’s Fortress.”

Following the War of 1812, the United States realized the need to protect Hampton Roads and the inland waters from attack by sea. In March 1819, President James Monroe came up with a plan of building a network of coastal defenses. In 1822 construction began in earnest on the stone-and-brick fort which would become the safeguard for Chesapeake Bay.

You’ll also get to see Old Point Comfort Light, which is located on the grounds of Fort Monroe in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay. It is the second oldest light in the bay and the oldest still in use. The lighthouse is owned and maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Know before you go: Hats are a must, if it’s a sunny day, as are sunglasses. Sunscreen, and if it’s a really hot day, bring a small hand towel if you lean toward sweating a lot! The day we went it was close to 100 degrees F and humid. I wish I had that towel as the sunscreen rolled into the one eye… and then the other. And comfortable shoes — because you’re standing still, essentially, as you lean forward or backward to control the Sequeway.

Getting there: 1 Ruckman Road, Fort Monroe, VA 23651

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Ghost Walk at Fort Monroe

October 21, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm.

Join us for a walking tour to explore some of the unexplainable phenomenon surrounding historic Fort Monroe. The Fort Monroe Ghost Walk has returned to share with you the haunting tales that accompany the very real history of Fort Monroe. This year we will explore homes, buildings, structures as we share with you a brand new route, new stories and new experiences!

Chairs that rock by themselves, a soldier in an attic, the very real and odd pirate history of Fort Monroe are just a few of the mysterious tales you will experience when you join us for this year’s Fort Monroe Ghost Walk, Where History Meets Mystery.

All ticket sales are final and there will be NO REFUNDS. Please be mindful of the following before you purchase tickets.   Space is limited.  Get your tickets early!  Click  here to purchase.  $20 in advance and $25 at the door.

Tours begin every 15 minutes and last less than an hour.

Tours will be rain or shine. This is an outdoor, walking tour just over one half a mile long and lasting approximately one hour. Be advised that many areas and buildings at Fort Monroe are not handicapped accessible. A portion of this tour is via a hay/ wagon ride. Teens under 18 must be accompanied by an adult and this tour is not recommended for children under the age of 12.

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Join us for a walking tour to explore some of the "unexplainable phenomenon" surrounding historic Fort Monroe. The Fort Monroe Authority's Fort Monroe Ghost Walk has returned to share with you the haunting tales that accompany the very real history of Fort Monroe. This year we will explore homes, buildings, structures as we share with you a brand new route, new stories and new experiences!

Chairs that rock by themselves, a soldier in an attic, the very real and odd pirate history of Fort Monroe are just a few of the mysterious tales you will experience when you join us for this year’s Fort Monroe Ghost Walk, were history meets mystery.

All ticket sales are final and there will be NO REFUNDS. Please be mindful of the following before you purchase tickets. Space is limited. Get your tickets early! Click  here to purchase.

Tours will be rain or shine. This is an outdoor, walking tour just over one half a mile long and lasting approximately one hour. Be advised that many areas and buildings at Fort Monroe are not handicapped accessible. A portion of this tour is via a hay/ wagon ride. Teens under 18 must be accompanied by an adult and this tour is not recommended for children under the age of 12.

Reservation or Registration: Yes

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