Caswell Ranger
Corporal
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2011
- Location
- Virginia
Passing in on. Hope they can save this historic location. I have no details.
FOR ALL OF MY FRIENDS IN EASTERN, NORTH CAROLINA -
Please put this on your Saturday Event Calendar for 12:00 Noon at the VFW Post 2514 on the Neuse River, Adjacent to FORT DIXIE
ALTHOUGH, Your Schedule or Plans May Not Permit your Attendance, Please Share this on Other Groups and Pages. Many Thanks - This Fort Dixie may be the last Confederate Fort in North Carolina which could be saved.
VFW Post 2514 - New Bern, NC
3 hrs
Fort Dixie Story- Sat.17th @ 12:00 p.m.
MARCH 14th, 1862 - NEW BERN, North Carolina, a Union Naval War Fleet will steam up the Neuse River attacking the Confederate Forts along the way, throwing shell after shell into the Forts and surrounding area supporting General Burnsides attacking army. The landings of troops at Fort Dixie and Fort Thompson would have looked like the scene above. An American flag was raised at the Forts, and Fed...
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FOR ALL OF MY FRIENDS IN EASTERN, NORTH CAROLINA -
Please put this on your Saturday Event Calendar for 12:00 Noon at the VFW Post 2514 on the Neuse River, Adjacent to FORT DIXIE
ALTHOUGH, Your Schedule or Plans May Not Permit your Attendance, Please Share this on Other Groups and Pages. Many Thanks - This Fort Dixie may be the last Confederate Fort in North Carolina which could be saved.
VFW Post 2514 - New Bern, NC
3 hrs
Fort Dixie Story- Sat.17th @ 12:00 p.m.
MARCH 14th, 1862 - NEW BERN, North Carolina, a Union Naval War Fleet will steam up the Neuse River attacking the Confederate Forts along the way, throwing shell after shell into the Forts and surrounding area supporting General Burnsides attacking army. The landings of troops at Fort Dixie and Fort Thompson would have looked like the scene above. An American flag was raised at the Forts, and Fed...
...
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