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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Official Website Located in the Low Country or Tidewater of North Carolina, the county was formed in 1729 as New Hanover Precinct of Bath County. Some of the closing battles of the American Civil War took place in this county, including the Second Battle of Fort Fisher (the last major coastal st...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilmington, North Carolina. Official Website Wilmington is the county seat of New Hanover County. It extends into Pender County and is named after Spencer Compton , the first Earl of Wilmington. Colonial Era The area along the river had been inhabited by various successive cultures of indigenous peoples for thousands of years. A...
The Battle of Wilmington was fought February 11–22, 1865, during the American Civil War , mostly outside the city of Wilmington, North Carolina , between the opposing Union and Confederate Departments of North Carolina. The Union victory in January in the Second Battle of Fort Fisher meant that Wilmington, 30 miles upriver, could no longer be used by the Confederacy as a port. It fell to Union ...
The First Battle of Fort Fisher was a naval siege in the American Civil War, when the Union tried to capture the fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina, the South's last major Atlantic port. Led by Major General Benjamin Butler, it lasted from December 23–27, 1864.The Union navy first attempted to detonate a ship filled with powder in order to demolish the fort's walls but this failed; the na...
Wikipedia Wilmington National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Wilmington, in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Find a Grave