Shipwrecks in the Cape Fear River: After the War

From the same source as the two earlier posts from today.

After the war, wreckers removed or leveled sunken vessels in and around the Cape Fear River that posed threats to navigation.

At the mouth of the Cape Fear River, a federal gunboat, most likely the USS Violet,  and the blockade-runner Georgiana McCaw were partially destroyed in this process as was the wreck of the ironclad CSS Raleigh at New Inlet.

Several Confederate transports that were scuttled in the river to block the channel below Wilmington after the fall of Fort Fisher in 1865 were reported to have been removed immediately after the war.

--Old B-Runner