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Dec 17, 2004 - Fort Fisher – Kure Beach

At the dawn of the American Civil War, the Confederacy took control of a neck of land in southern North Carolina near the mouth of the Cape Fear River and constructed what was to become the largest and one of the most important earthwork fortifications in the South. Two major battles were fought there and many Union soldiers received the Congressional Medal of Honor for their gallant participation. Today only a few of the mounds remain, since much of the fort has been eroded by the ocean and the use of the area in the World War II as a...

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