From the January 10, 2013, Examiner "Free educational event at North Carolina's Fort Fisher" by Liza Weidle.
This coming January 18th, a living history event takes place at Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, North Carolina. Re-enactors will show various aspects of Civil War camp life and volunteers will be there to talk about the lives of Confederate infantry and artillery.
January 15th marks the 148th anniversary of the fall of this huge fort which so ably guarded New Inlet to the Cape Fear River so that blockade-runners could come and go, carrying the supplies the Confederacy needed to wage the war.
This commemoration will focus on Sheppard's Battery at the far western end of the fort's land defenses and the action around the "Bloody Gate" which the battery protected. This is where the Union Army first made a lodgement in the fort. Once that was secured, with the Union's overwhelming force, it was just a matter of time before the fort had to surrender.
I have to admit that I have never heard of the "Bloody Gate" but I'd have to say that the name is appropriate.
More to Come. --Old B-Runner
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