Freedom’s Fortress
Arch fabric
Heritage rewritten
Selective history
For two years after the civil war, Jefferson Davis was held as a military prisoner confined to a small room known as a casemate at Fort Monroe near Norfolk. He was never tried.
“The Fort Monroe Authority on Friday removed the letters that spelled “Jefferson Davis Memorial Park” from an iron archway that honored the one-time Confederate president imprisoned at the former Army post.” – Lisa Vernon Sparks