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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Alfred Terry (section Fort Fisher and North Carolina)
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...
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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....
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Fort Fisher AFS Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates)...
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Civil War, after the Union Army captured Fort Fisher, North Carolina, the accidental explosion of the fort magazine resulted in an estimated 200 deaths...
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USS Minnesota (1855) (section Battles of Fort Fisher)
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...
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Robert Harrill (redirect from Fort Fisher Hermit)
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...
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North Carolina Aquariums (redirect from North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher)
encounters, and feeding programs. The focus of the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher, in Kure Beach, is to educate visitors about the waters of the Cape Fear...
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Galusha Pennypacker (redirect from Hero of Fort Fisher)
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...
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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...
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USS Brooklyn (1858) (section Attack on 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...
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Wilmington campaigns (redirect from Operations Against Fort Fisher and Wilmington)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Battle of Wilmington (section Fort Anderson)
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...
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Atlantic Ocean, with four nearby beach communities just outside Wilmington: Fort Fisher, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, and Kure Beach, all within half-hour...
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George Dewey (section Battles of Fort Fisher)
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, 7–27 December...
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David Dixon Porter (section Capture of Fort Fisher)
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...
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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...
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Land (part) Carolina Beach State Park Federal Point Fort Fisher State Historic Site Fort Fisher State Recreation Area Freeman Park Masonboro Island Estuarine...
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five ships carrying contraband. She participated in the battles for Fort Fisher, which effectively closed the port of Wilmington, North Carolina to the...
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USS Advance (1862) (section Bombardment of Fort Fisher)
the Southerners defending Fort Fisher. Before dawn that day, the Federal fleet unleashed a terrific bombardment on the fort. Not long thereafter, around...
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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...
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eventually co-write The Reluctant Hermit of Fort Fisher about Harrill's life, and was elected president of the Fort Fisher Hermit Society, formed in Harrill's...
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Benjamin Butler (section Fort Fisher and final recall)
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...
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Battery Wagner, Drewry's Bluff, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Globe Tavern, Fort Fisher, and Bentonville. After the Civil War, Clingman explored and measured...
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