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The Western Branch fort was likely the biggest in a series that formed a picket line for the Union Army, according to the Hampton Roads Civil War Roundtable. Up to 50 Union soldiers would be stationed there at a time.

As a boy growing up in what was then Norfolk County, Gerald Kinney played “Army” with his friends. What he didn’t know then is that the forested plot of land had once been a Civil War fort.