This Weekend At the Fort: Fort Fisher's "Beat the Heat" Lecture, Wilmington Hospitals During the Civil War

Today's Fort Fisher "Beat the Heat" Lecture will be "Tending to the Soldiers:  Wilmington's Civil War Hospitals."  It will be presented by noted historian and author Wade Sokolowski.

During the war, soldiers on garrison duty around Wilmington and those wounded on far-off battlefields arrived in Wilmington for treatment.  There were many hospitals in Wilmington for that purpose.

The presentation is  free and open to the public. and is presented by the Friends of Fort Fisher and the towns of Kure Beach and Carolina Beach, North Carolina.

It takes place at the Fort Fisher State Historic Site
1610 Fort Fisher Boulevard South
Kure Beach, N.C.

Starts promptly at 2 p.n. in the Spencer Theater.

Oh Well, Too Far for Me.  --Old B-Runner