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Hampton VA opened 150 years ago to help Black Union veterans; its history gets fresh look


HAMPTON, Va. (Tribune News Service) More than 150 years ago, on the same land where the 
Hampton VA Medical Center is located, sat a women’s college.
The students fled during the Civil War and Confederate forces seized the site, making it a lookout. The school had a dome facing a 
Union Army stronghold the Fortress Monroe. Later, after the Union regained control, Maj. 
Gen. Benjamin Butler, Fort Monroe’s commander, purchased it.
His purchase mostly coincided with 
Congress passing an act in 1865 to establish the 
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers  a few were built in the north. Five years later, Butler sold the land to the government for $50,000, recommending that an infirmary in the south was needed for  ....

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