084 - Return To The Confederacy's Gibraltar: Fort Fisher Revisited

About this episode: 

 

Some six years ago, we chronicled the Confederacy’s Gibraltar that allowed Wilmington, NC to be the last major Confederate port open to the outside world. 72 episodes later and in the 160th year of its capture, we, again, turn our attention to the massive earthen fort and those that took part in the campaign to either storm or defend the Confederate Goliath. This is the expanded story of the fort whose fall in January of 1865 hastened, in many respects, Lee’s retreat from Petersburg, Virginia and, subsequently, the surrender of his army at Appomattox. This is Fort Fisher Revisited.

 

Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:

Rose O'Neal Greenhow

William Lamb

William Henry Chase Whiting

Braxton Bragg

Gideon Welles

David Dixon Porter

 

For Further Reading:

The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays Of Departing Hope by Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr.

 

Confederate Goliath: The Battle Of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg

 

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Producer: Dan Irving