Fort Fisher, Battle Acre, Monument, Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederacy, Civil War
"Battle Acre," with flag and monument, erected by the United Daughters of Confederacy.
A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of...
Fort Fisher, Beach, Blockade Runner, Confederacy, Civil War
Fort Fisher Beach, showing exposed wreck of a blockade runner.
A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the...
Fort Fisher, Beach, Erosion, Civil War, Confederacy
Fort Fisher Beach and Mound, showing erosion.
A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last port to be...
Fort Fisher Beach and Hotel Café building. Note erosion. Written on the original photo: "Three years ago the rear end of this building stood at the point of this stake." (Stake marked with x)
A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about...
historical landmarks, courthouses, Pender County, NC
A landmark--Pender County's handsome courthouse is a backdrop for the monument recognizing the county's Confederate soldiers. The medallion identifies Major General William D. Pender, for whom the county was named. The monument was erected by the...
Chuck Clark, (left), ,George Cole, (right), and Aaron Ritter, (back 1), are members of the 23rd NC State Confederacy Troop Company that is protecting the St. of Wilmington tonight as tonight was the start of the Old Wilmington by Candlelight Tour,...
Located in Kure Beach, Fort Fisher was the last remaining supply route available to Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, until January 15, 1865, the assualt which determined the fate of the confederacy.
Tree- lined Street in the cemetery showing the gazebo, which has a pointed roof and wrough-iron decorative work on it and white stone grave markers. The Street is unpaved. First internments were in April and May 1867. Where approximately...
Built in 1859-1860 by the shipbuilders Pusey & Jones of Wilmington, DE, the "Hurt" served as a troop transport for the Confederacy during the Civil War and a passenger and freight boat later, making trips between Wilmington and Fayetteville along...
A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last port to be captured by Union forces during the Civil War....
Federal Point landscape.
A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last port to be captured by Union...
Fort Fisher Mounds and Beach looking east. Gabriella deRosset Waddell is the older woman pictured here, with Archibald Henderson on the left.
A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the...
Fort Fisher Road and mounds. Long distance view of site.
A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last...
Fort Fisher mounds and road.
A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last port to be captured by Union...
Oakdale Cemetery, Cemeteries, Graves, George Davis
The Honorable George Davis of Wilmington, was a distinguished lawyer and Attorney-General of the Confederate States of America. Inscription on slab: "George Davis, born March 15th 1820; died February 23, 1896. "Statesman, yet friend to truth and...