by Robert Gilbert | May 7, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Virginian served on land and sea Clarence Cary, Confederate States Navy, was born in March of 1845, the son of Archibald Cary and Monimia Fairfax Cary, grandson of Thomas Fairfax, ninth Lord Fairfax of Cameron. He was a direct descendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe...
by Suzanne K. McKean | May 4, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Disease, Not Lead, Found This Trooper Joseph W. Boys was a private in the United States Army, serving with the 112th New York. (A regimental history written by a chaplain with the 112th can be found online.) Joseph, a mortician, survived the action at Fort Fisher but...
by William Peoples | May 4, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Coming Home Was Hard, Too Private William Peoples, U.S. Army, served in Pennypacker’s Brigade, in the Pennsylvania 203rd Regiment. He was from the part of Pennsylvania where Pennypacker lived. He survived both Fort Fisher and the war, but died at the age of 28...
by Susan McKean Hall | Apr 12, 2015 | New Hanover, Union affiliation
This Northerner Came To Fight Corporal Samuel V. Mount, U.S. Army, served with the 112th New York Infantry. Wounded in battle at Richmond, he came back to fight in the first and second expeditions against Fort Fisher. He came in with sailors on the beach, under heavy...
by William R. Darrow | Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Gesture of Peace Across the Years Corporal James E. Reid, U.S. Army, was on picket duty along Wilmington Road and present at the magazine explosion, but did not participate in either assault at Fort Fisher or in the Wilmington Campaign. He wrote a series of more than...
by David M. Moore | Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Then It Became Civilized Six days before his birthday Captain Ezra Lewis Moore, U.S. Army, was detailed to the staff of Joseph C. Abbott. As the battle for Fort Fisher was winding down, Capt. Moore and another officer were walking down towards the Mound Battery when...
