Answers below.
6. The fall of Fort Fisher closed of what Confederate port?
7. Who was the Confederate general in charge of the whole area who did not attempt to save the fort?
8. Fort Fisher was built to protect Wilmington and help what kind of ship get into the harbor?
9. What was the name of the famed Confederate naval officer who commanded the CSS Albemarle, CSS Florida and also blockade runners?
10. Fort Fisher is often called the Malakoff Tower of the South." In what war was the Malakoff Tower?
11. Frank Crawford question. (This means it is really hard.) Fort Fisher was surrendered buy a Confederate major who had also surrendered Fort Johnston across the Cape Fear River to the Confederate earlier in the war. What was his name?
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ANSWERS
6. Wilmington, North Carolina
7. Braxton Bragg
8. Blockade Runners
9. John Newland Maffitt
10. Crimean War
11. Major James Reilly
I got them all correct, but, of course, I'm a Fort Fisher nut.
--Old B-Runner
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