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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6UA_wythes-birthplace_Hampton-VA.html
Eight miles north George Wythe, Revolutionary Leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born, 1726.
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Forward Monument:Confederate Prisoners of War who died in Federal Prison in Newport News Va between April and July 1865 are interred here.
This memorial was donated byMildred Rhodes DuncanThomas Purnell Duncan, Jr.
Front of Monument:Confeder…
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The monument that stands before you was erected in June 1900 by the members of the Magruder Camp No. 36, United Confederate Veterans, to honor the 163 Confederate soldiers reinterred at this site who had died in the POW Camp next to Camp Butler on…
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After the March 8-9, 1862, Battle of Hampton Roads, CSS Virginia went into drydock for refitting. USS Monitor guarded Union Gen. George B. McClellan's transport vessels in the York River near Fort Monroe, and the Federals reinforced the bows of fa…
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In Hampton Roads, southward and a mile or two offshore, the Virginia (Merrimac) and the Monitor fought their engagement, March 9, 1862. The day before the Virginia destroyed the Cumberland and Congress, wooden ships of Union Navy.