The Wilmington Campaign: Last Departing Rays of HopeStackpole Books, 2001 - 623 pages Providing coverage of both battles for Fort Fisher, this book includes a detailed examination of the attack and defence of Fort Anderson. It also features accounts of the defence of the Sugar Loaf Line and of the operations of Federal warships on the Cape Fear River. |
Contents
The Port | 1 |
Running the Blockade into Wilmington | 2 |
Blockade runner Advance | 11 |
Union blockading ships at Old Inlet | 23 |
Col William Lamb | 39 |
Maj Gen William Henry Chase Whiting | 47 |
Interior of Fort Fisher | 55 |
Bvt Brig Gen Godfrey Weitzel | 70 |
U S Army assault and capture of Fort Fisher | 262 |
Col Louis Bell | 275 |
Battery Buchanan | 297 |
Pvt James Dallas Croom | 312 |
Maj Gen John M Schofield | 330 |
Brig Gen Charles J Paine | 346 |
Fort Anderson | 360 |
Cushings sham monitor | 375 |
Gen Braxton Bragg | 85 |
U S Naval Secretary Gideon Welles | 91 |
Maj Gen Benjamin F Butler | 98 |
Sgt Maj Christian Fleetwood | 111 |
Maj James Reilly | 118 |
Cmdr A C Rhind | 126 |
The Mound Battery Fort Fisher | 135 |
Capt James Alden and the Brooklyn | 144 |
Lt William Henry Walling | 156 |
Capt John T Thomas | 168 |
Bvt Maj Gen Alfred H Terry | 196 |
Admiral Porter and staff | 206 |
Union troops landing on Federal Point | 213 |
continued from previous page | 216 |
Northeast Bastion Fort Fisher | 233 |
Land face artillery Fort Fisher | 246 |
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The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope Chris Eugene Fonvielle No preview available - 1997 |
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