From the Dec. 8th Wilmington (NC) Star-News Back Then column by Scott Nunn. He goes back over old newspapers for these stories.
From a December 8, 1910, Wilmington paper.
An 8-inch projectile weighing 100 pounds, evidently fired at Fort Fisher during the Civil War was brought up from the Cape Fear River bed by a powerful dredge that had been working in the area.
Other shells had also been recovered during the dredging, but this one was by far the largest of the lot.
It was placed on the steamer Madelene and brought up to the city wharf in Wilmington, where "it is attracting considerable attention."
Considering the massiveness of both bombardments, I'm sure many more pieces of shells and probably unexploded ordnance still are in the ground, marshes and river around the fort.
I've Probably Walked On Some of These. --Old B-Runner
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