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Monument at Fort Fisher.     Has the importance of Fort Fisher and the great Wilmington area been missed in the historiography of the past 1...

    Fortifications below Wilmington, and along the Cape Fear River in North Carolina, began not long after North Carolina left the Union. T...

This weekend, our friends at Ft. Fisher are holding their anniversary events. If you live in the area, please drop in and check out the...

A week ago, I was just getting home from the Fort Fisher event. I had meant to post some thoughts earlier, but book proofs and other things...

Instead of me trying to retell the story, I'll just let the marker at Fort Fisher do that. This image was taken in July 2011. Her...

Well, as you have probably figured out, I’ve been gone for the past week. We left the Wilmington area and spent a week in Florida. I alway...