100 Museum Dr
Newport News, VA
23606
Museum: 9 AM - 5 PM
Park and Noland Trail: Open
100 Museum Dr
Newport News, VA
23606
Museum: 9 AM - 5 PM
Park and Noland Trail: Open
Select Fridays at 12 p.m. (ET)
Take a look back in history as John V. Quarstein, noted historian, author, and director emeritus of USS Monitor Center, along with special guest speakers, share significant events about our nation’s history and examine their direct ties to the Hampton Roads region.
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Presented by John V. Quarstein, director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center
About the presentation:
Newport News had played a tremendous role in supporting the Allied World War I victory. The Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation sent and received hundreds of thousands of American soldiers to and from the Western Front. The Newport News Welcome Home Committee decided to construct a Victory Arch in downtown Newport News in honor of those returning soldiers. The arch, featuring the inscription, “Greetings with love to those who return; a triumph with tears to those who sleep,” welcomed home more than 400,000 men during WWI and even more during the second World War. The arch still stands as a memorial to those soldiers who served our nation in times of need.
Presented by John V. Quarstein, director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center
As the North and South began to build ironclads, rumors were leaked about the various ship construction programs. There was not an effective naval intelligence service during the Civil War. Yet, one successful participant was Major William Norris, CSA. Another was seamstress and Union spy Mary Louvestre, a free Black, of Norfolk. She sent secret messages to Union commanders at Fort Monroe about the USS Merrimack’s transformation into the ironclad CSS Virginia. The Union nor the Confederacy needed to rely on such clandestine information as northern and southern newspapers provided ample material, usually in a boastful manner. All antagonists had to do was to obtain a copy of The New York Times or Mobile Register to find all they needed to know about ironclad development.
This lecture is also part of our Civil War Lecture Series.
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