Monday, March 19, 2018

The 56th Anniversary of Fort Fisher's Fall in 1921


From the March 8, 2018, Wilmington (NC) Star-News  "Back Then."

From the January 12, 1821 newspaper:  "Captain E, D. Williams, Wilmington's harbor master, noted that the 56th anniversary of the fall of Fort fisher was approaching.

"He was a youth age 16 in the Confederate Signal Service when it fell January 15, 1865."

--Old B-Runner

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