. Tales and traditions of the lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896 . ble report of its defence, saysthat the capture of Fort Fisher, N, C, on the loth ofJanuary, 1865, was followed so quickly by the finaldissolution of the Southern Confederacy, that the greatvictory was not fully realized by the American position commanded the last gateway between theConfederate States and the outside world. Its capture,with the resulting loss of all the Cape Fear riverdefences and of Wilmington, the great importing depotof the South, effectually ended the Lee, feeling the importance
. Tales and traditions of the lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896 . ble report of its defence, saysthat the capture of Fort Fisher, N, C, on the loth ofJanuary, 1865, was followed so quickly by the finaldissolution of the Southern Confederacy, that the greatvictory was not fully realized by the American position commanded the last gateway between theConfederate States and the outside world. Its capture,with the resulting loss of all the Cape Fear riverdefences and of Wilmington, the great importing depotof the South, effectually ended the Lee, feeling the importance of the situation,sent word to Colonel Lamb that Fort Fisher must beheld or he could not subsist his army. ►►*- Description of Situation, 44 Ihe indentation of the Atlantic ocean in the I larolinacoast known as Onslow Bay, and the Cape Fear river,running south from Wilmington, form the peninsulaknown as Federal Point, which during the Civil Warwas called Confederate Point. Not quite seven milesnorth of the end of this peninsula stood a high sand-hill. >Piw H Q2 ID o OS wBi—i HO 85 called the Sugar Loaf. Here there was an intrenchedcamp for the army of Wilmington under General BraxtonBragg, the Department Commander, that was hid fromthe sea by forest and sand-hills. From this intrenchedcamp the river bank, with a neighboring ridge of sand-dunes, formed a covered way for troops to within ahundred yards of the left salient of Fort the road and the ocean beach was an arm ofMasonboro Sound, and where it ended, three miles northof the fort, were occasional fresh-water swamps, generallywooded with scrub growth, and in many cases quiteimpassable. Along the ocean shore was an occasionalbattery formed from a natural sand-hill, behind whichWhitworth guns were carried from the fort to coverbelated blockade-runners or to protect more unfortunateones that had been chased ashore. About half a mile north of the fort there was a ris<in the plain, forming a hill some t
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