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| '''{{PAGENAME}} (1826-1946)''' - First named [[:Category:Fort Calhoon|Fort Calhoon]] and renamed Fort Wool in 1862 during the [[U.S. Civil War]] for Union General [[John E. Wool]]. Conceived in 1817 and built on an artificial island southeast of [[:Category:Fort Monroe|Fort Monroe]]. It served to guard Virginia's Hampton Roads harbor through [[World War II]]. It became a Hampton Roads City Park in 1970.
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| ==Construction==
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| Construction began on the artificial island in 1818 and by 1823 had raised the island to a height of six feet above high tide and construction of the fort itself was begun. Fort Wool was to have three tiers of casemates and a barbette tier ( 4 tiers designed to mount 232 guns). About half of the second casemate and one tier was completed when work stopped in 1830 because the island was sinking at a rate of eight inches a year. Additional stone was added to the island and work resumed on the casemates in 1858. The [[U.S. Civil War]] halted construction.
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| 2nd Lt. [[Robert E. Lee]] was stationed at [[:Category:Fort Monroe|Fort Monroe]] between 1831 and 1834 and paticipated in the construction of both [[:Category:Fort Monroe|Fort Monroe]] and Fort Wool. Lee's participation in the construction of Fort wool was limited to tasks involving the addition of more stone to island itself. His immediate supervisor was Captain [[Andrew Talcott]] who was in charge of construction at both forts.¹
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| * [http://www.geocities.com/hrforts/Fort_Wool/history.htm A Brief History of Fort Wool]
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| * [http://www.virginiahospitalitysuite.com/hampton_roads%20fortwool.htm Short History of Fort Wool]
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| # [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Robert_E_Lee/FREREL/home.html ''R. E. Lee'', the biography by Douglas Southall Freeman] (4 vols., complete online version), [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Robert_E_Lee/FREREL/1/6*.html page 103]
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