In my Dec. 13th Running the Blockade, I mentioned that this marker was to be dedicated. here's a follow up.
The Dec. 13th ENC Today (Eastern North Carolina) had an article by David Anderson who covered it.
He estimated that 150 people attended the ceremony in the front yard of Dan and Wendy Boyette this past Saturday. They were mostly SCV and UDC members.
The granite memorial was taken from the supports of the nearly 200 year old Richmond Theater in Richmond, Virginia, and is inscribed with the names of 13 Confederates killed in the 1862 Battle of White Hall and the crew of the CSS Neuse. Both the battle was fought and the ship built near the Boyette's property.
It was erected on private property "because anything pro-Confederate erected on public properties such as court houses draws immediate community outrage." The Boyette's donated the land the memorial sits on.
The battle was fought to protect the CSS Neuse and to stop a federal raiding group headed for Goldsboro to destroy the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad bridge there.
Always Good to See a Civil War Marker Go Up. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
