Fort Fisher

In January 1865, Fort Fisher was the site of the largest American land and sea military assault until World War II. Fort Fisher was a Confederate fort during the American Civil War which protected the vital trading routes in Wilmington, North Carolina, from 1861 until its capture by the Union in 1865. The fort was located on one of Cape Fear River's two outlets to the Atlantic Ocean on what was then known as Federal Point and today is known as Pleasure Island. Because of the roughness of the seas there, it was known as the Southern Gibraltar.

Fort Fisher kept the port of Wilmington, N C, open for the Confederates until its capture on January 15, 1865, by a combined force of Soldiers, Bluejackets, and Marines, under the fire of a large fleet.

Rear Admiral David D. Porter described the defenses of Fort Fisher as being "stronger than Malakoff Tower, which defied so long the combined power of France and England," at Sebastopol, Crimea, in 1855, and further stated that "even an engineer might be excusable in saying that they could not be captured except by regular siege."

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[Sreybk]

Who killed The Fort Fisher Hermit?

[misterwobblehead]

I did not know that. Awesome info.