Destination for people looking to experience the citys history and nearby beaches. With the help of our Charter Communication partners for the next 90 minutes will learn about e citys history from local authors. Weegin with author Chris Bonneville on for interested in the battle for wilmington during the civil war. [inaudible] were actually standing on the path of the crest of fort emerson. This was the largest confederate fort in the lower cape fear interior that guarded the western land approaches in the river approaches to the seaport of wilmington. The fort was initially started in march of 1862, construction was ongoing throughout the war and there were still working on it when it was attacked in february of 1865. The fort was built on top of the old seaport of brunswick. This was the leading seaport on the Cape Fear River in colonial times, in fact it was the first enduring settlement on the Cape Fear River. After the American Revolution brunswick faded into oblivion and the enti
River approaches to the seaport of wilmington. Confederates got good intelligence that the attack was coming. They knew the attack was planned against fort fisher. Four andersons garrison was largely depleted to send enforcements to fort fisher. You may have had a company or two of troops here. There would be to attacks on fort fisher. One at christmas of vacant 64, but 2. 5 weeks later, they returned with more soldiers, and this time they were determined to capture the fort. After 2. 5 days of bombardment, the second largest bombardment of the civil war. Andnd forces attacked overwhelmed confederate defenders. Outmanned, outgunned, exhausted. The union forces turned their guns upriver to capture wilmington. That is when four anderson came into play. General Braxton Bragg abandoned the fort at the mouth of the river and withdrew them to four anderson. Soldiershen the most were in four anderson during the war, around 2300 confederate soldiers here. A division of troops who had been sent
River approaches to the seaport of wilmington. Confederates got good intelligence that the attack was coming. They knew the attack was planned against fort fisher. Four andersons garrison was largely depleted to send enforcements to fort fisher. You may have had a company or two of troops here. There would be to attacks on fort fisher. One at christmas of vacant 64, but 2. 5 weeks later, they returned with more soldiers, and this time they were determined to capture the fort. After 2. 5 days of bombardment, the second largest bombardment of the civil war. Andnd forces attacked overwhelmed confederate defenders. Outmanned, outgunned, exhausted. The union forces turned their guns upriver to capture wilmington. That is when four anderson came into play. General Braxton Bragg abandoned the fort at the mouth of the river and withdrew them to four anderson. Soldiershen the most were in four anderson during the war, around 2300 confederate soldiers here. A division of troops who had been sent
River approaches to the seaport of wilmington. Confederates got good intelligence that the attack was coming. They knew the attack was planned against fort fisher. Four andersons garrison was largely depleted to send enforcements to fort fisher. You may have had a company or two of troops here. There would be to attacks on fort fisher. One at christmas of vacant 64, but 2. 5 weeks later, they returned with more soldiers, and this time they were determined to capture the fort. After 2. 5 days of bombardment, the second largest bombardment of the civil war. Andnd forces attacked overwhelmed confederate defenders. Outmanned, outgunned, exhausted. The union forces turned their guns upriver to capture wilmington. That is when four anderson came into play. General Braxton Bragg abandoned the fort at the mouth of the river and withdrew them to four anderson. Soldiershen the most were in four anderson during the war, around 2300 confederate soldiers here. A division of troops who had been sent
I am going to introduce our speaker, warren perry. He is originally from memphis, tennessee. He has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university. His oneman play, walt whitman and the civil war. And he cowrote elvis, which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. In his 12 years at the National Portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. More than 40 on the American Civil War. He received one of the secretary Research Prizes for 2013 for the Smithsonian Congress of scholars. We are very proud of him. He is founder and director of the Perry Library of theater. I would like to introduce amy bracewell, the site manager and she is going to make a few remarks and then well have warren come up here. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to thank you so much for coming out. Cedar creek and belle grove historical park was excited to partner with the smithsonian for this lecture. Thank you for agreeing to speak on this great hist