From my journal, July 30, 1982.
"At closing (of Fort Fisher), Mary (Hollowell) drove me to the Blockade Runner where we met Jim Legg who works there. We bought some beer and then backtracked to Fort Fisher. Jim has done extensive research and legwork on the fighting that occurred there and up the peninsula.
He showed me Camp Wyatt, the Union camp and lines, lunettes, bullet trench (near Dowd Road, the site of the battle and the entrenchments that are left on Sugar Loaf. The battle site is primarily a big lake now as that is the place all the sand on the beach came from.. Jim could hardly mention the Army Corps of Engineers and not put expletives in front of it. It is always sad to lose a Civil War site of any sort but progress must go on. Jim had even prepared an accurate map for us to use."
This Was Quite the Walk-About. --Old B-R'er
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