Fort Fisher State Historic Park will be celebrating the 145th anniversary of the fall of the Civil War's Fort Fisher this January 15th-17th.
JANUARY 15TH-- FRIDAY
There will be a panel discussion "Black Men Bearing Freedom: US Colored Troops and Their Impact on North Carolina" at the University of North Carolina Wilmington Fisher Student Center.
JANUARY 16th-- SATURDAY
Dr. Richard Reid, author of "Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War
" will give a talk at Fort Fisher.
About 300 re-enactors, including US Colored Troops will recreate the battle. USCT participated to a great degree in the attack.
There will be lantern tours and a night-time firing of the 32-pounder rifled and banded cannon at Shepard's Battery. There will be a $5 charge for adults on the 30-minute night time tour. Tours are 30 minutes long and will leave every 30 minutes starting at 7 PM.
All daytime activities are free and there will be artillery and infantry demonstrations as well as Confederate and Union camps on the fort grounds.
Sure Wish I Could Be There, But, Alas, I Live Too Far Away. --Old B-Runner
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