Fort Fisher was a Confederate fort during the American Civil War. It protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina, from...

Battle of Fort Fisher may refer to: First Battle of Fort Fisher – 1864 Second Battle of Fort Fisher – 1865 This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was a successful assault by the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina...

The First Battle of Fort Fisher was a naval siege in the American Civil War, when the Union tried to capture the fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina...

Fort Fisher State Recreation Area is a 287-acre (1.16 km2) North Carolina state park in New Hanover County, North Carolina in the United States. Located...

In 1865, Terry led Union troops to victory at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher in North Carolina. Although born in Hartford, Connecticut, Alfred Terry's...

USS Fort Fisher (LSD-40) was an Anchorage-class dock landing ship in service with the United States Navy from 1972 to 1998. She was scrapped in 2010....

duty, and three years later she participated in the Second Battle of Fort Fisher. Minnesota served until 1898, when she was stricken, beached and burnt...

preparations were underway for a joint Army-Navy expedition against Fort Fisher, which protected Wilmington, the Confederacy's last major blockade-running...

Fort Fisher AFS Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates)...

awarded the Medal of Honor for his leadership at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher during the Civil War. Galusha Pennypacker was born supposedly June 1...

North Carolina. The Union victory in January in the Second Battle of Fort Fisher meant that Wilmington, 30 miles upriver, could no longer be used by the...

Fort Fisher which protected Wilmington, North Carolina. On Christmas Eve, she closed to within 1,500 yards of the shore to bombard the works of Fort Fisher...

take Fort Fisher. Brooklyn was in the task force that arrived off Fort Fisher on January 13, 1865, and her guns supported the attack until the fort surrendered...

American man also known as the Fort Fisher Hermit. He became a hermit in 1955, at the age of 62, having hitchhiked to Fort Fisher on the North Carolina coast...

the Second Battle of Fort Fisher includes: Second Battle of Fort Fisher order of battle: Confederate Second Battle of Fort Fisher order of battle: Union...

five ships carrying contraband. She participated in the battles for Fort Fisher, which effectively closed the port of Wilmington, North Carolina to the...

was commended for his participation in the bombardment and capture of Fort Fisher. Colhoun was born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on 6 May 1821 and was...

long narrow strip of sandy ground that stretched from Myrtle Grove to Fort Fisher. The Federal Point Light once stood at southern end of the peninsula...

Battle of Fort Fisher order of battle may refer to: First Battle of Fort Fisher order of battle Second Battle of Fort Fisher order of battle This disambiguation...

Beaufort when the fort fell. She arrived at the scene of the battle on 16 January 1865 with a coal schooner in tow. After Fort Fisher fell, the campaign...

Civil War, after the Union Army captured Fort Fisher, North Carolina, the accidental explosion of the fort magazine resulted in an estimated 200 deaths...

available to the Confederacy. Fort Fisher guarded the Cape Fear River and in order to capture Wilmington, Fort Fisher had to fall. On 7 December 1864...

Atlantic coast, where he led the U.S. Navy in the joint assaults on Fort Fisher, the final significant naval action of the war. Porter worked to raise...

December. She then joined the rest of the squadron in the attack on Fort Fisher on 24–25 December, firing over 500 shells in the fierce bombardment....

the Southerners defending Fort Fisher. Before dawn that day, the Federal fleet unleashed a terrific bombardment on the fort. Not long thereafter, around...

made it, along with nearby Fort Fisher, one of the most elaborate defensive system in the world at that time. (Fort Fisher guarded the other inlet to...

Kentucky, and Indiana. The highway runs for 941 miles (1,514 km) from Fort Fisher, North Carolina, to US 20 in Michigan City, Indiana. Along its routing...

dismissed from the Union Army after his failures in the First Battle of Fort Fisher, but he soon won election to the United States House of Representatives...

protected by Fort Fisher, at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. A joint Army-Navy attack in December failed (the First Battle of Fort Fisher, December 7–27...