Hampton Roads

Keith Freeman, chairman of the Hampton Roads Tea Party, said he thought the state party was using “a double standard.”

Down in Virginia there is a great body of salt water known as Hampton Roads.

On the morning of March 8, 1862, the sun came up beautifully over the broad waters of Hampton Roads.

During all this time Hampton Roads had been gay with Federal shipping.

She was steaming round Hampton Roads, waiting to sink any of the boats that were maintaining that blockade.

As the sun went down, that night, over Hampton Roads, every Union heart in the fleet and in the fortress throbbed with despair.