Randy Cabell wrote, in part:

 > Somebody started his Email with a terrific list of
 > things... early settlement, Coast Artillery, Jefferson
 > Davis, Abrham Lincoln, and I was ready to sign on.
 > Until, he verred off to give his opinion that
 > Emancipation was the #1, be-all-and-end-all reason
 > for preserving it.

That was me, Mr. Cabell, and like the often-left-unnamed 
self-emancipators Frank Baker, Sheppard Mallory, and James Townsend, I 
have a name: Steve Corneliussen. I too go way back with Fort Monroe, 
including -- just to give one example -- having been married in the 
chapel there over 30 years ago. I respect your right to disagree about 
what's historically important, but I also assert a right to correct your 
fundamentally inaccurate report of what I actually said. It's not 
Emancipation that makes Fort Monroe symbolize America itself in a way 
that, say, Jefferson Davis's imprisonment cannot. It's 
self-emancipation. Enormous difference. Thanks.

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