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    Fort Fisher was a Confederate fort during the American Civil War. It protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina, from...
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    The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was a successful assault by the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina...
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  • Battle of Fort Fisher may refer to: First Battle of Fort Fisher – 1864 Second Battle of Fort Fisher – 1865 This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    USS Fort Fisher (LSD-40) was an Anchorage-class dock landing ship in service with the United States Navy from 1972 to 1998. She was scrapped in 2010....
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    Fort Fisher State Recreation Area is a 287-acre (1.16 km2) North Carolina state park in New Hanover County, North Carolina in the United States. Located...
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    The First Battle of Fort Fisher was a naval siege in the American Civil War, when the Union tried to capture the fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina...
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    In 1865, Terry led Union troops to victory at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher in North Carolina. Although born in Hartford, Connecticut, Alfred Terry's...
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    Fort Fisher AFS Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates)...
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    encounters, and feeding programs. The focus of the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher, in Kure Beach, is to educate visitors about the waters of the Cape Fear...
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    duty, and three years later she participated in the Second Battle of Fort Fisher. Minnesota served until 1898, when she was stricken, beached and burnt...
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    awarded the Medal of Honor for his leadership at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher during the Civil War. Galusha Pennypacker was born supposedly June 1...
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  • American man also known as the Fort Fisher Hermit. He became a hermit in 1955, at the age of 62, having hitchhiked to Fort Fisher on the North Carolina coast...
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  • Battle of Fort Fisher order of battle may refer to: First Battle of Fort Fisher order of battle Second Battle of Fort Fisher order of battle This disambiguation...
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  • the Second Battle of Fort Fisher includes: Second Battle of Fort Fisher order of battle: Confederate Second Battle of Fort Fisher order of battle: Union...
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    long narrow strip of sandy ground that stretched from Myrtle Grove to Fort Fisher. The Federal Point Light once stood at southern end of the peninsula...
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    North Carolina. The Union victory in January in the Second Battle of Fort Fisher meant that Wilmington, 30 miles upriver, could no longer be used by the...
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    Atlantic coast, where he led the U.S. Navy in the joint assaults on Fort Fisher, the final significant naval action of the war. Porter worked to raise...
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  • Civil War, after the Union Army captured Fort Fisher, North Carolina, the accidental explosion of the fort magazine resulted in an estimated 200 deaths...
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    Atlantic Ocean, with four nearby beach communities just outside Wilmington: Fort Fisher, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, and Kure Beach, all within half-hour...
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    Confederate States Army officer in commanding the Confederate garrison at Fort Fisher at the mouth of the Cape Fear River during the Civil War. William Lamb...
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    protected by Fort Fisher, at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. A joint Army-Navy attack in December failed (the First Battle of Fort Fisher, 7–27 December...
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    Beaufort when the fort fell. She arrived at the scene of the battle on 16 January 1865 with a coal schooner in tow. After Fort Fisher fell, the campaign...
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  • eventually co-write The Reluctant Hermit of Fort Fisher about Harrill's life, and was elected president of the Fort Fisher Hermit Society, formed in Harrill's...
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    dismissed from the Union Army after his failures in the First Battle of Fort Fisher, but he soon won election to the United States House of Representatives...
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    Land (part) Carolina Beach State Park Federal Point Fort Fisher State Historic Site Fort Fisher State Recreation Area Freeman Park Masonboro Island Estuarine...
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    take Fort Fisher. Brooklyn was in the task force that arrived off Fort Fisher on January 13, 1865, and her guns supported the attack until the fort surrendered...
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    preparations were underway for a joint Army-Navy expedition against Fort Fisher, which protected Wilmington, the Confederacy's last major blockade-running...
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  • 2021 in Wilmington, North Carolina, locations included Carolina Beach, Fort Fisher, and Wave Transit's Padgett Station on N. 3rd Street. Filming of the...
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    on blockade runner CSS Lynx, Howquah was caught in a cross fire from Fort Fisher and from "friendly guns" on two other Union ships, USS Governor Buckingham...
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    is part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from Fort Fisher, North Carolina to Michigan City, Indiana. In the U.S. state of North...
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