From the Powderkeg Magazine of the Friends of Fort Fisher.
A great way to get out of the heat and learn something at the same time. These presentations are held at the E. Gehroig Spencer Theater at the Fort Fisher Visitors Center at the Fort Fisher State Historic Site in Kure Beach, North Carolina.
They begin on Saturdays at 2 p.m..
JULY 8 TOPIC
Elmira Prisoner of War Camp: The North's Answer to Andersonville
The speaker will be Richard Triebe, historian and author who has written a book about the prison.
The majority of the enlisted Confederate captured at Fort Fisher were brought here and an alarming number of them died in a few months of imprisonment.
JULY 15 TOPIC
The Final Days of the CSS Neuse - and Beyond. The speaker will be Andrew Duppstadt of the North Carolina State Historic Sites.
This was the sister ship of the CSS Albemarle.
Again, I Sure Wish I Could Be There For These, But 1200 Miles Is JUST Too Far. --Old B-Runner
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