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Photos

The article is illustrated by several photos already, but certain additional photos would help to depict the moat and the star shape of the fort (discernable but not entirely obvious at first glance, in the aerial photo included in the article). I think that the one color photo for Fort Monroe available at HABS, and perhaps others of the many b&w photos available there, would improve the article. doncram (talk) 09:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Article reassessed and graded as start class. With proper referencing, this article could easily be a B class if not a GA. --dashiellx (talk) 00:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

About the balloons

I want to congratulate whoever authored the section on the use of balloons at Fort Monroe during the Civil War. It is as though you read my article on the Union Army Balloon Corps and took it for gospel, or have perfectly coroborated my version. Without being patronizing I would like to congratulate you on telling the story as well as you did.--Magi Media (talk) 05:11, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sneden Image Deleted

I deleted the image of Fort Monroe by Robert Knox Sneden that was reconstructed from this image at Encyclopedia Virginia, the digital rendering of which is owned by the Virginia Historical Society and used only with their permission. It is not available for Wikipedia use without similar permission. Margo&Gladys (talk) 15:13, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

coast artillery school

I'm going to park the school stuff here, unless someone who actually knows somthing wants to start a dedicated school page. Brian in denver (talk) 15:59, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fact check?

This line from the Early 19th Century subsection troubles me: " In March 1819, President James Madison came up with a plan of building a network of coastal defenses. Construction of the fort began in earnest on the stone-and-brick fort which would serve as the safeguard for the Chesapeake Bay." Madison was elected President in 1808 and 1812. His second term would have ended in March 1817, thus he was no longer President in March, 1819. Am I missing something here? Did the writer possibly mean James Monroe, who was in office at that time. Sector001 (talk) 08:51, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Old Point Comfort Lighthouse

The lighthouse depicted on the page, the "Old Point Comfort" lighthouse is not, nor ever been on fort Monroe. That lighthouse is on Fort Story, now Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story. These two forts are on opposite sides of the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Ft Story on the south-side, Ft Monroe on the north. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spearhead30 (talk • contribs) 19:16, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Last Confederate cabinet meeting

You say: After the last Confederate cabinet meeting was held on April 26, 1865, at Charlotte, North Carolina…

Davis’ own wiki page says: President Davis met with his Confederate Cabinet for the last time on May 5, 1865, in Washington, Georgia, and officially dissolved the Confederate government. Valetude (talk) 14:31, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Telegraph Wire Discovered

I came across an article in the Monmouth Democrat of 15 Aug 1861 referencing a letter home from Fortress Monroe to a gentleman in New York. No doubt it was published in other newspapers as well. It tells of how an electric telegraph wire was discovered by a company of soldiers bathing at nearby Mill creek. The soldiers investigated and found that the wire connected the fort with Fox Hill, where the enemy were entrenched in large numbers. It might be a piece of the puzzle for this or another Wiki article? For your information. It is available on Newspapers dot com. Pnoble805 (talk) 12:57, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]