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Title
Fort
Fisher
-
ca.
1935
.
Subject
Fort
Fisher
,
Beach
,
Waddell
,
deRossett
,
Henderson
Description
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
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
. In
January
,
1865
,
it
was the
scene
of the
largest
amphibious
battle
in
U.S
.
history
until
the
Normandy
invasion
during
World
War
II
.
Named
for
Colonel
Charles
F
.
Fisher
,
who
was
killed
in the
first
battle
of
Manassas
, the
fort
contained
mounds
made
of
thick
parapets
of
sand
and
massive
timbers
and was the
work
of
Confederate
General
W
.
H
.
C
.
Whiting
,
who
joined
the
U.S
.
Corps
of
Engineers
after
his
graduation
from
West
Point
. On
January
15
,
1865
, the
fort
fell
to the
mighty
Federal
armada
which
spelled
doom
for the
Confederacy
.
Erosion
of the
famous
fort
has been an
ongoing
problem
;
all
of the
original
mounds
on the
ocean
side
have been
destroyed
.
Date
c. 1935
Source
Louis T. Moore Collection 189
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