Fort Fisher Sailor's Letters Discussed at Cape Fear Civil War Round Table-- Part 1

From the Jan. 8, 2020, New Bern (NC) Sun Sentinel.

Becky Sawyer, interpreter and collections manager at the Fort Fisher State Historic Site will  speak about a trove of long lost letters written by a mariner aboard of Union naval ship in the last days of the war.

The Cape Fear Civil War Round Table out of Wilmington, North Carolina, will (well, had) a presentation at 6:30 pm, at Harbor Church, 4853 Masonboro Loop.  Unfortunately, it is too late, but she has given this talk several times in the area so will probably do it again.

Becky Sawyer is a native of St. Louis, Mo.,  and earned her Masters degree in public history at UNC-Wilmington.  She is also a re-enactor .

Over the course of three years, with the assistance of Rick Morrison, Sawyer and the staff at Fort Fisher have been transcribing letters of the Sydney Stockbridge who served as clerk on the USS Pawtuxet in the Second Battle of Fort Fisher (whose anniversary is January 15).

These letters are on loan from Joe Stockbridge  of Surry, Maine,  the great nephew of Sydney Stockbridge.

--Old B-Runner