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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
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Note In line with giving visitors definite in
formation regarding the State of North Carolina,
the editor has secured several stories of which
this is the sixth to appear.
The articles already printed include the fol
lowing: Dec. 29, Industries; Jan. 5, Educational
Equipment; Jan. 12, Hall of History, State
Museum; Jan. 19, The State Museum; Feb. 2,
The Theodosia Burr Alston Portrait.
HE LARGEST and best
known of all the Con
federate fortifications, as
well as the most impor
tant, was Fort Fisher,
which stood between the
Cape Fear river and the ocean on the
peninsula known during the Civil War,
as "Confederate Point" ; but before and
since, as "Federal Point."
The place was in 1861 a vast sand bank,
which in itself almost formed a fortifica
tion along the ocean shore, suggesting
its development. Very early in 1861 the
State took the first steps towards fortifica
tion, and soon after the Confederacy took
over the work was carried out after the
plans of Colonel William Lamb, which
were approved by Generals Stephen G .
French, Gabriel Raines, James B. Long
street, P.G. T. Beauregard and W. II. C.
Whiting.
The fort guarded one of the two en
trances into the Cape Fear river and to
the important port of Wilmington, Fort
Caswell guarding the other entrance.
The sea face of Fort Fisher was 1898
yards in length and the land face 682
yards. The fort was built entirely to re
sist the fire of a fleet, and after the first
attack upon it, which, strange to say,
was not made until late in December,
1864, the Federal engineers named it the
"MalakofT of the South." The fort stood
that great bombardment and also the one
of January 15th following, without dam
age except to the guns, and it has been
stated by eminent engineers that this
fort, more than anything else, gave the
idea for the present system of fortifica
tions which guard the harbors of the
United States.
The peninsula is about half a mile wide,
between the river and the surf. The
outer slope of the fort was twenty feet
high and sodded with the marsh grass,
which is so rank, the parapet being
twenty feet thick, with an inclination of
only one foot. All the cannon were
mounted on Columbiad carriages, en bar
bette, there being no guns in casemates.
The gun chambers contained from one
to two guns each and between these there
were heavy traverses or cross parapets,
which were the heaviest ever built, (the
purpose of these being to give protection
from an enfilading fire, extending some
twelve feet or more above the parapet
and running back thirty-six feet. Access
to each gun chamber was by steps in the
rear, and in each traverse was a magazine
or a bomb-proof, while passage way pen
etrated the traverses in the interior, form
ing other bomb-proof for the gun reliefs.
There was no moat as the sands were so
shifting that one could not be con
structed, but there was an underground
system of torpedoes about 600 feet from
the fort, which could be suddenly ex
ploded, while palasades of sharpened
logs, nine feet high were pierced for
musketry fire by the defenders.
Most of the cannon had been brought
from the Norfolk navy yard, and the
state of North Carolina had secured a
good many of these before it joined the
Confederacy, having exchanged with
Governor Letcher about 12,000 muskets
it had seized at the United States arsenal
at Fayetteville, for cannon which Vir
ginia had seized upon the evacuation of
the Norfolk navy yards, at which time
the Federal forces failed to destroy these
great guns, which afterwards furnished
the principal means of defense the south
had, and in fact brought about the pro
longation of the war.
There were also field-pieces for the de
fense of the sally-port. The entire sys
tem of defense was the most modern in
the world at that time. At a point where
the channel ran close to the beach inside
the bar, there was a mound battery sixty
feet high, topped by two very heavy guns
which gave a plunging fire on the chan
nel and which was designed to prevent
the Federal blockade vessels or attacking
vessels from entering it, and which per
mitted the gunners to shoot down upon
the decks of iron-clads. This lofty bat
tery was connected with the fort north
of it by a light curtain.
At that very point was battery Buchanan
with two eleven-inch guns covering not
only the inlet but the land approach,
with an advanced redoubt ; this battery
being a citadel to which the garrison of
the fort, if over-powered, could retreat
and be carried away at night.
The entire length of this vast fortifica
tion was over a mile, from the mound to
the northeast bastion at the angle of the
sea face and the land face of Fort Fisher,
and upon this line twenty-four heavy
guns were mounted, two of these being
Whitworths of the largest size, which
were brought through the blockade from
England.
North of the fort there were occasional
batteries formed from natural sand hills
and behind these, light Whitworth guns
were carried to cover blockade-runners
which were belated or being chased ; the
Federal blockading vessels being greatly
afraid of these weapons, the finest then
in use, which were manned by the best
gunners in the Confederacy.
Almost all the time during the war
prominent English officers were in and
around Fort Fisher, which was designed
not only to protect Wilmington, but to
enable blockade running to be prosecuted.
The state owned its own blockade runner,
the "Ad-Vance," which had been pur
chased by its agent in England and named
in compliment to the wife of the gov
ernor, Z. B. Vance, and which brought
in immense quantities of stores for this
State.
The Confederacy also had an interest
in the cargoes of this blockade runner
after a time, while scores of other daring
bockade runners were operated with
wonderful success, though many were
captured, or sunk, or went ashore, the
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