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Fort Monroe was begun in 1819 and named for President James Monroe. It remained in possession of the Union forces from 1861 to 1865, and from it as a base McClellan began the Peninsular Campaign in 1862. Jefferson Davis was imprisoned here from 1865 to 1867.
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