Charles Fisher was buried at the Old Lutheran Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina. He became an early hero of the Confederacy with his death. His troops erected a marker where he fell, which was later damaged by souvenir hunters and is now replaced by a U.S. flagpole.
His friend, Sewall Lawrence Fremont came to command the coast defense of North Carolina and named the defensive work at the mouth of the Cape Fear River's New Inlet Fort Fisher.
Later, the United Confederate Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy established memorial markers.
North Carolina chief justice Benjamin Franklin White, formerly a Confederate captain, published a laudatory account of Fisher's death in 1901.
His hat is in the North Carolina Museum of History.
--Old B-Runner
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