All things dealing with the Civil War Navies and actions along the coasts and rivers and against forts. Emphasis will be placed on Fort Fisher and all operations around Wilmington, NC. And, of course, the Blockade and Running the Blockade.
Monday, August 20, 2018
So, You Wanted to Know About the Brick and Stone Forts in North Carolina Symposium-- Part 1
From the August 2018 Federal Point Preservation Society newsletter/
Getting up close and personal with history. If you like this, you definitely want to be at Cape Fear History 2018 symposium.
Well, you can learn all about brick and stone fortifications August 24-25 at Fort Caswell, North Carolina.
It is a two-day trip into the past where guests will not only meet, eat and sleep at Fort Caswell, an old masonry fort guarding Wilmington, N.C., but will also hear from the nation's leading experts on U.S. coastal defense history through a series of of lectures and seminars as well as touring the historic fort.
Fort Caswell protected the west entrance to the Cape Fear River at Old Inlet. Wilmington, N.C., is upriver.
--Old B-Runner
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