New Book on Fort Fisher

From the December 21, 2013, Wilmington (NC) Star-News "Bookmarks: New look at Fort Fisher in 'Faces'" by Ben Steelman.

The new book, "Faces of Fort Fisher: 1861-1864" by Chris E. Fonvielle Jr is printed by SlapDash Publishing of Carolina Beach, NC, and costs $39.99. It brings together period photographs and newspaper engravings and tells the stories of some of the key people of the fort.

Sadly, no pictures are known to have been taken while the fort was in Confederate hands. All we have are the ones taken by photographer T.H. O'Sullivan who visited and took many a few weeks after the fort's capture January 15, 1865.

There are also fanciful color engravings from an 1864 issue of the Illustrated London News. Also, soldiers in the fort had pictures of themselves taken.

There are also segments on blockade-runner and commerce raider John Newland Maffitt and Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow as well as William Lamb, the fort's commander, and his wife Daisy.

Another volume is planned.

Of great interest to us Britt's Donuts (in Carolina Beach, NC) fans, SlapDash is also coming out with an illustrated history of that venerable institution on the Carolina Beach Boardwalk.

We Can Always Use Another Book On Fort Fisher and Wilmington During the War. (Not to mention BRITT'S!!!) --Old B-R'er