Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia Finish:Rolled Plate 6 from the book

Plate 6 from the book Zoologischer Atlas

Some of the figures are discussing the Treaty of Paris

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

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Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia Finish:Rolled Plate 6 from the bookFortress 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