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Article: Public helps shape Monroe plan.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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By Kate Wiltrout
The Virginian-Pilot
HAMPTON
Almost 150 years after Jefferson Davis was imprisoned at Fort Monroe, devoted supporters of Confederate history are speaking out to ensure his stay is remembered and preserved.
Davis, president of the Confederacy, was held for two years at the base after he was captured in the waning days of the Civil War. His time at the fort certainly wasn't one of the high points of the Southern cause. But Mark Sheehan of Hayes doesn't want Davis or the Confederacy given short-shrift after the Army leaves this waterfront post in 2011.
Sheehan was among about 75 people who came to a public ...