The speaker had lists of why Braxton Bragg got a bum rap and why he was not to blame for the fall of Fort Fisher. He was very convincing and showed that Confederate General Whiting, although well-liked by his men and others was not such a good general. I will write about the presentation later this week.
After the presentation, I took a walk around the museum and saw the Whitworth cannon that is there on loan. This was one of the best guns at the fort and a four-piece flying battery that would go out at a gallop from the fort to safeguard stranded blockade-runners until two were sent off to other points and two were captured at the blockade-runner Hebe fight.
They also had several items belonging to Col. lamb, the fort's commander that had been presented to the fort by the Lamb family this past sesquicentennial commemoration at the fort to mark the fall of it on January 15, 1865. This was quite an observation with over 20,000 visitors.
I sure would have liked to have been there for it.
--Old B-R'er
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