This is his grandpa's story.
"Grandpa Joe Clemmons, shortly after he turned 17 in the spring of 1862, along with his brothers and close friends, was persuaded by Captain Galloway to join the Coast Guard Company headquartered at Fort Caswell and Fort Johnson. The company was armed with a new Armstrong rifled cannon."
Much war materiel was brought in by the blockade-runners. "Since the cannoneers were born in Brunswick County and had worked the forest and rivers from early childhood, they could live off the land and when not needed at the inlets, were sent on scavenging parties into Green Swamp to kill wild cattle, deer, and wild pigs for the fort."
I have left out parts which you can look up.
More to Come. --Old B-R'er
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
