Fort Fisher Monument

Fort Fisher Monument. . , (south face) , In memory of those men of the Confederate States Army who for more than three years manned the guns of Fort Fisher under command of Colonel William Lamb, Major General W.H.C. Whiting and Major James Reilly., (north face) , During the War Between the States, 1861-1865, Fort Fisher was the defence of the last open port of the Confederacy. Here a combined naval and military assault by Federal forces was repulsed on December 24 and 25, 1864. The fort was captured on the night of January 15, 1865, after three days combined bombardment by more than 55 enemy warships and attacks by 10,000 land forces. The garrison of the fort, 1900 men, was composed entirely of North Carolinians with the exception of 350 South Carolinians., (west face) , Erected by The North Carolina Division United Daughters of the Confederacy , April, 1932 , Cecil Brawley Long, President Newton , Committee , Annie Rogers Newell, Chairman Charlotte , Amanda Parsley Taylor Wilmington , Hannah Attmore Long Graham , Mattie Hadley Woodard Wilson , Alice Davis Peck Wilmington