Public Announcement
♦ On Wednesday May 13th at 6:30 p.m. a program “A Confederate Soldier at Fort Fisher” will be presented by Don Saunders of the John Sloan Camp of Greensboro, N.C. The program will be held at the Stanback Room of the Rowan Public Library in Salisbury, N.C. This program is free and open to the public. For more information contact Steve Poteat at 704-633-7229 or email: rowanscv@carolina.rr.com
Until the last months of the War Between the States, Fort Fisher kept North Carolina’s port of Wilmington open to blockade runners supplying the Confederate armies inland. By 1865, the supply line through Wilmington, N.C. was the last remaining supply route open to Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. When Ft. Fisher fell after a massive Federal amphibious assault on January 15, 1865, its defeat helped seal the fate of the Confederacy. For more background on Fort Fisher:
http://www.nchistoricsites.org/fisher/main.htm
