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Rebel Gibraltar - Fort Fisher and Wilmington, C.S.A. (Paperback)
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Rebel Gibraltar - Fort Fisher and Wilmington, C.S.A. (Paperback)
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Even before the rest of North Carolina joined her sister states in
secession, the people of the Lower Cape Fear were filled with
enthusiasm for the Southern Cause - so much so that they actually
seized Forts Johnston and Caswell, at the mouth of the Cape Fear
River, weeks before the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter. When
the state finally did secede, Wilmington became the most important
port city of the Confederacy, keeping Robert E. Lee supplied with
the munitions and supplies he needed to fight the war against the
North. Dedicated soldiers like William Lamb and W.H.C. Whiting
turned the sandy beaches of southern New Hanover and Brunswick
Counties into a series of fortresses that kept the Union navy at
bay for four years. The mighty Fort Fisher and a series of smaller
forts offerd safe haven for daring blockade runners that brought in
the Confederacy's much-needed supplies. In the process, they turned
the quiet port of Wilmington into a boomtown. In this book that was
fifteen years in the making, James L. Walker, Jr. has chronicled
the story of the Lower Cape Fear and the forts and men that guarded
it during America's bloodiest conflict, from the early days of the
war to the fall of Wilmington in February 1865.
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