Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia Finish:Rolled labeled: 1

labeled: 1

Original caption: 'Trunk of a human subject

France and Germany

Plate 6 from the book Zoologischer Atlas

A woman street seller

Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia Finish:Rolled labeled: 1Fortress 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