Brig. Gen. Abraham Eustis establishes the Artillery School of Practice at Fort Monroe. Later becoming the Coast Artillery School, the training of artillery officers was centralized here for over a century. 1828 Edgar Allan Poe, serving in the Army under the name Edgar Perry, is assigned to For...
Both Fort Eustis and Fort Knox have operational and training capabilities that Fort Monroe lacks and both have excess capacity that can be used to accept the organizations relocating from Fort Monroe." The Commission estimated that the recommendation could result in a maximum potential reduction of ...