From Wikipedia.
CHARLES FREDERICK FISHER
(December 26, 1816 to July 21, 1861)
Namesake of Fort Fisher.
American attorney, legislator, engineer and soldier from Salisbury. he served as the president of the North Carolina Railroad and died at the Battle of Bull Run while leading his 6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment.
He was born in Salisbury, N.C., to plantation owner Charles Fisher and his wife Christine Beard Fisher. His paternal father, Frederick Fisher had come from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and was an officer in the American militia during the Revolutionary War. His maternal great grandfather had been an ardent Tory (Loyalist) during the war.
He had a private education and entered Yale in 1835, but failed to finish freshman year. Back home, he married Ruth Caldwell and became a miner, farmer and journalist. he supported his father who was a politician through his Western Carolinian publication.
In 1854, he became a state senator and the next year became the president of the North Carolina Railroad.
--Old B-Runner
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