EDGAR ALLAN POE. On September 9, 1849, the
world-famous writer visited Fort Monroe where
in his youth he had served as an enlisted man.
He recited poetry in the moonlight for friends
on the veranda of the Hygeia Hotel. A month
later he was found in a dying condition on a
street in Baltimore.
Pub. by Walter H. Miller & Co., Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia
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Portrait by Thomas C. Corner
Copyright 1936 Enoch Pratt Free Library
Color Photograph by Walter H. Miller
Caption by Fort Monroe Casemate Museum
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