Fort Fisher Rundown-- Part 3: Guns to the Right

Yesterday, I listed the artillery along the land face of the fort, primarily there to protect from a land attack coming from the north of Fort Fisher, North Carolina.  This was roughly a half mile long.

Then, there was the mile long series of batteries and fortifications along the Atlantic Ocean, stretching from the Northeast Bastion where the land face joined it, south to the huge Mound Battery (an apt name).  Farther down the shore was Battery Buchanan, built specifically to provide cover for the blockade runners in New Inlet itself.

Here is the list of the batteries and guns, starting at Battery Buchanan to the Northeast Bastion, the so-called Water Batteries:

Buchanan: two 11-inch Brooke Smoothbore, two 10-inch Columbiads
Mound Battery:  one 10-inch Columbiad
Hedrick:  two 10-inch Columbiads
Lenoir:  one 7-inch Brooke Rifle, one 6 3/8 Rifle 32
Roland:  two 10-inch Columbiads
Purdie:  one 8-inch 150-pdr. Armstrong Rifle
Bolles (the first battery constructed at what became Fort Fisher):  two 6 3/8-inch Rifles
Columbiad:  five 8-inch Columbiads, one 7-inch Brooke Rifle
Cumberland: one 10-inch Columbiad
Meade: three 10-inch Columbiads, one 6 3/8-inch Rifle 32

Thatsa' Lot of Guns.  --Old B-Runner