From the July 9th WWAY 3 ABC News, Wilmington, NC.
The monthly Second Saturday program at Fort Fisher concentrated on Civil War authors of both fiction and non-fiction, who set up at the Fort Fisher Visitors Center to discuss their books and sign copies.
Jack Travis has written a book on Confederate Major James Reilly who he describes as the greatest battery leader of the war. Major Reilly was in the US Army and surrendered Fort Johnston to Confederates after North Carolina seceded and then joined the Confederate Army and was at Fort Fisher during the battles. It was he who surrendered the fort after the commanders, William Lamb and W.H.C. Whiting, were wounded.
The next Second Saturday is August 13th.
Sure Would Like to Go to One of These Interesting Events, But Too Far Away. --Old B-R'er
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Was down from NYC visiting the folks and had the chance to attend the event - met Col. Travis, Michael Hardy and Steve Atamanchuck who wrote a novel about Cushing and Plymouth. The cannon firing was a big hit with the kids as well, they had a nice crowd at the Fort on Saturday. Walked into Front Street Books last week and picked up a copy of Potter's Raid by David Norris, who happened to be in the store browsing the same time and had a nice conversation.
I hope to be there one of these days for a Second Saturday, which they also have at other NC State Historic Sites.
At one time, I wanted to write a book about Fort Fisher, since no one had, but several persons have done so now.
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