Shepherd’s Battery

Shepherd’s, one of the oldest batteries in the fort, guarded its western end.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

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Heiman's Brigade

Johnson's Division

C.S.A.

Brigadier General Bushrod R. Johnson's Division

Colonel Adolphus Heiman's BrigadeOn February 13, 1862, about noon, a Federal force under Colonel William R. Morrison, deployed in the woods opposite the right and center of this brigade and launched an attack against ...

Forrest's Cavalry

C.S.A.

Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest's CavalryOn February 15, 1862, during the attack Forrest's Cavalry covered the extreme left of the Confederate line. The backwater in lick creek and the swampy condition of the flats along the creek interfered with the movements ...

Shepherd’s Battery

Shepherd’s, one of the oldest batteries in the fort, guarded its western end.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

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Restoration of Shepherd’s Battery

Over the years man and nature destroyed much of Fort Fisher. Restoration of this battery was based on archaeological, historical, and photographic evidence.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

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Holding the Outer Lines

The remains of the trenches you see here are part of the outer line of defenses that protected Fort Donelson against land attack. This part of the line was initially occupied by Capt. Rice E. Graves' six-gun Kentucky Battery with ...

River Road Sally Port

The River Road sally port was the fort’s main land entrance.

At 3:30 p.m. on January 15, 1865, Union infantry charged into this end of the fort.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road. ...

Live on Our Stage!

Top of the Town

When NBC radio and television and its local affiliate,

WRC, moved to these new headquarters in 1958, the average TV screen measured 12 inches. The facility opened with six studios—three TV and three radio. Soon history ...

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial

“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war,

and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace,”

General Ulysses S. Grant.

Hiram Ulysses Grant, mistakenly listed as Ulysses Simpson ...

Lamb Expands the Fort, 1862-1865

Col. William Lamb took command on July 4, 1862. For two years over 1,000 soldiers, slaves, and free blacks worked six days a week.

J.A. McMillan, a soldier at Fort Fisher, wrote: “They everlastingly make us work. … We work nine ...