Excerpt from A History of Old Point Comfort and Fortress Monroe, Va: From 1608 to January 1st, 1881 I am aware that for the general reader much of the historical memorandum which enters into my introduction may be uninteresting; but the facts I am about to set forth have a special value for mili tary readers and persons of a studious turn; and without them your instructions to prepare a his tory of Point Comfort - or Old Point, as it is com mouly called, could not be properly carried out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.