★★★ Fisher, Charles Frederick

Charles Frederick Fisher​

Born: December 26, 1816

Birthplace: Salisbury, North Carolina

Father: Colonel Charles Frederick Fisher 1788 – 1849

Mother: Christina Beard 1788 – 1848

Wife: Elizabeth Clarissa Ruth Caldwell 1821 – 1850

(Buried: Old Lutheran Church Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina)​

Children:

Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan 1846 – 1920​

(Buried: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina)​

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Anne McBride "Annie" Fisher 1849 – 1925​

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Frederick Charles Fisher 1849 -​

Education:

Attended Yale University

Occupation before War:

Mine Owner, and Planter in Salisbury, North Carolina​

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Editor of Western Carolinian Newspaper​

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1854 – 1855: North Carolina State Senator​

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1855 – 1861: President of North Carolina Railroad​

Civil War Career:

1861: Colonel of 6th​ North Carolina Infantry Regiment​

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1861: Killed during the First Battle of Bull Run, while leading a charge​

Died: July 21, 1861

Place of Death: Manassas, Virginia

Age at time of Death: 44 years old

Burial Place: Old Lutheran Church Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina

 

[DaveBrt]

Ft. Fisher, outside Wilmington, was named in his honor by his close friend, S. L. Fremont, Superintendent of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad and temporary engineering officer in charge of creating the Wilmington defenses.

 

[Pollaco]

At 1st Manassas He was leading a charge at Sudley Road on a Union battery in support of fellow North Carolinian Thomas Clingman and his cousin Colonel Jubal Early. Historians still aren't sure if the fatal bullet was from friendly fire from either a Mississippi or Alabama regiment or from a Northen regiment.