Hampton-roads definition
(place) Channel & harbor in SE Va., linking the James River estuary with Chesapeake Bay.
proper name
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Stephens headed the Confederate commission to the peace conference at Hampton Roads in February 1865.
He was put in command of its naval forces when Franklin Buchanan resigned after he was wounded in the action with the Federal squadron in Hampton Roads.