Today, in my Civil War blog, I wrote about Fort Caswell, which during the Civil War guarded the old entrance to the Cape Fear River in North Carolina leading to Wilmington.
Much of the fort was destroyed by Confederates when they abandoned it and I thought it had never been a military installation after that, but came across mention in a Feb. 28, 1911, Wilmington paper that soldiers were on their way to the fort.
You can read it at http://sawtheelephant.blogspot.com.
New Use for an Old Fort. --Cooter
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