The next three days were so jammed packed with things we were doing. Those 3 days were very very warm (HOT!!!).
Tricia and i are both thankful to her nephew Del Stewart who is a retired US Army (CW3), who now as a civilian is currently working for the Department of the Army at Fort Eustis. He took some time off and showed us around. We saw and did things we would not have been able to see and enjoy. Thank you Del Stewart.
We left Richmond and went to Williamsburg got a hotel then drove down to Yorktown and met Del and one of his sons Zac . Del had it off because it was Memorial Day. He took us over to the battle grounds at Yorktown.
we started here.........
one of the Battlefields at Yorktown.
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Monument at Yorktown, celebrating victory in the American Revolutionary War. Installed 1884.
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The next day we went to Williamsburg. i forget what the day and year it was supposed to be but it was a hot summer day around 1775 all of the individuals were portraying.
I was very very very impressed with all individuals and the wealth of knowledge and information that was being shared.
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| Patrick Henry giving a speech. |
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| Tricia Stewart at the Governors Palace |
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| Bruton Parish Church |
An old cannon at the College of William and Mary
Tricia resting in the shade of the tree at the College of William and Mary
The next day we went with Del who was gracious to take us to Fort Monroe. Fort Monroe was a Military Fort in Hampton Virginia. The major tenant unit was the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). That was were Del worked. It's history dates back to the Colonial times, but i think it was the war of 1812 that Madison started building it. It was at the beginning of the Civil War that Lincoln made sure it didn't get into the hands of the Confederacy. Anyways lots and lots of history. Thanks again to Del Stewart.
Oh the whole Fort is surround by a moat. I think it is the only Fort in America surrounded by a moat.
The following couple of pictures is the flag that hung in the cell and the cell where Jefferson Davis was imprisoned at Fort Monroe.
Jefferson Davis cell bed.
These are some shots of Del and Tricia and TRADOC.
Again Del Thank you for your service and God Bless you and your family.
The building to left of the sign was General Robert E Lee's quarters it had to be before the war.
a picture of the "Lincoln Gun" i got out and found the #1
The Old Point Comfort Light at Fort Monroe, built in 1802.
Again thanks to Del Stewart in the afternoon we visited The Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis.
A large museum that focuses on U.S. Army transportation from Colonial days to the present with full-
size equipment, dioramas, and uniforms.
