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Landing of Wool and Norfolk KV5 |
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 Picture courtesy of John Musgrove
Near here Major-General John E. Wool, on May 10, 1862, Landed with 6000 Union Troops, President Lincoln, Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, and Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, watched the movement from a ship in Hampton Roads. As the Confederate troops had withdrawn, Wool marched to Norfolk, which was surrendered to him by Mayor W.W. Lamb that Afternoon.
Conservation & Development Commission 1932
Ocean View Blvd, Norfolk City Virginia.
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