• With the fall of Fort Fisher, the trading route to Wilmington was cut, as was the supply line for General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
  • Fort Fisher was a Confederate fort during the American Civil War. It protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina...
  • Fort Fisher was one of many local forts that were built to protect the region, but it was easily the South's best fort for securing Wilmington.
  • The Union eventually focused its attention on Wilmington and Fort Fisher, when both formed the last major Confederate stronghold on the coast.
  • Although initially a small series of artillery batteries, Fort Fisher was built up throughout 1862 and 1863, largely at the hands of hundreds of slaves.
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  • Fort Fisher kept the port of Wilmington open to blockade runner vessels that supplied necessary goods to Confederate armies and its civilian population.
  • Fort Fisher was the largest of the Confederacy's earthwork fortifications during the Civil War, and served as an arm of Camp Davis during World War II.
  • In the Visitor Center, an audiovisual program tells the story of Fort Fisher and guided tours of the outdoor exhibits are conducted along a quarter-mile trail.
  • Site of Civil War's largest Amphibious (Land and Water) Battle, the remaining portion of the gigantic Fort Fisher earthworks, along with a restored palisade fence and...