Virtually all of the buildings of the fort were destroyed in September, 1848, when a terrible hurricane hit hard at the warehouses, horse sheds, officers’ quarters, barracks, wharf and hospital destroying or heavily damaging virtually all of the buildings. After the high winds had died, the ...
21 In March 1865, Harriet Tubman, a woman who had escaped slavery and returned to Dorchester and Caroline Counties in Maryland on numerous occasions to guide others to freedom, and who had provided services to the Union Army, was appointed matron of a hospital at Fort Monroe that was set ...