Special Events

Facilities

Exhibits

Exhibit Photos

Fiber-Optic Battle Map

Location

Site Area Map
(74K)

Tour Map
(View PDF - 3.6Mb)

Tour Map Back
(View PDF - 427K)

The Weather at Fort Fisher

THE PORT

Wilmington

The River Defenses

The Cape Fear Estuary and Approaches to Wilmington
(165K)

Confederate Map of Civil War Wilmington
(73K)

Federal Map of Civil War Wilmington
(66K)

BLOCKADE

Running the Blockade

THE FORT

Fort Fisher

Map of Fort Fisher
(67K)

Armament

The Crimean War Connection:

The Malakoff (Sebastopol)
(51K)

POLITICS

A Conjoint Attack Upon Wilmington

1ST ATTACK

The Powder Vessel

Engagement Chronology

Casualties and Other Numbers

Union Command Gallery

Confederate Command Gallery

2ND ATTACK

Engagement Chronology

Casualties and Other Numbers

Union Command Gallery

Confederate Command Gallery

Black Troops at Fort Fisher

BATTLE MAPS

Bombardment of Fort Fisher
(60K)

Opposing Lines on Federal Point
(68K)

Attack of Federal Sailors and Marines
(66K)

Federal Infantry Attack
(66K)

Advance of Abbott's Brigade
(72K)

Surrender at Battery Buchanan
(66K)

AFTERMATH

Aftermath

Magazine Explosion

The O'Sullivan Images:

Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Northeast Bastion

Northern Battlements

Shepherd's Battery

Second Gun Chamber

Land Front Interior

The Pulpit

Columbiad Battery

Columbiad Battery Detail

Columbiad Battery Exterior

Mound Battery

GALLERY

Historical Gallery

THE FORCES

Federal Army
and Navy

Confederates

WWII

Fort Fisher During World War II

Gallery