Wilmington Star News by Amy Hotz "Summer intern ready to share history of Fort Fisher battle."
Each summer, a new person is chosen for the Mary Holloway Summer Internship, which was started in 1986. Mary Holloway was Fort Fisher's first tour guide who died of breast cancer.
This year, Clyde Wilson was named intern. He is 22 and an Army veteran who has just received a master's degree from North Carolina Central. He left the Army as a Sgt. First Class, but will wear the uniform of a Private in the United States Colored Troops when he gives the battle tours. About one-third of the Union forces in the battles at Fort Fisher were members of the USCT.
He will be able to provide a part of the story not generally known by most Americans, the service of black soldiers in the Union Armies.
I met Mary Holloway back in the 1980s. She was quite a wonderful person. And did she know her Fort Fisher stuff.
Great News for the Fort. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
