150 Pounder Armstrong Gun Captured at Fort Fisher, North Carolin
Rifled muzzleloading gun made in 1864 by Sir W.G. Armstrong & Company, England, said to have been a gift from private donors in England to the Confederacy. A major weapon in the armament of Fort Fisher, Wilmington, North Carolina, it was captured January 15, 1865 by a combined Union Army and Naval assault closing the last deep water port to Confederate blockade runners.
Shipped to the Military Academy in 1865, the gun was a prominent feature of Trophy Point for the next hundred years until the deterioration of the wooden carriage caused it to be removed from Trophy Point.
A faithful reproduction of the original seacoast carriage and the return of the Armstrong Gun to Trophy Point was a privileged salute to our alma mater on our fiftieth anniversary.USMA 1932
Marker can be reached from Washington Road, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
