From the Oct. 7, 2012 Wilmington (NC) Star-News My Reporter "Was there a Confederate camp at Masonboro Sound?"
A reader wrote in and wanted to know the answer.
There was plenty of Civil War action around Masonboro Sound. General Braxton Bragg, worried about Federal troops now entrenched in the lower Cape Fear River and a possible siege of Wilmington, ordered a line of breastworks built from just below Wilmington at Fort Meares, one of the river batteries, east to Hewlett's Creek near Masonboro Sound.
This would give Confederates a defensive line in case Sugar Loaf (by present-day Carolina Beach) fell.
According to Fort Fisher's Becky Thatcher, the Union did attempt an unsuccessful landing between Wrightsville Sound and Masonboro Sond.
There are some structures still standing in the area.
Old B-R'er
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