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The history of Fort Ocracoke in Pamlico Sound / Robert K. Smith ; edited by Earl O'Neal Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Robert K. (Robert Klinton), 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 7th. Company A.
- Soldiers.
- Fortification.
- History.
- Fort Ocracoke (N.C.)--History.
- Fort Ocracoke (N.C.).
- Fortification--North Carolina--History.
- North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- North Carolina.
- Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 7th. Company A--Biography.
- Confederate States of America.
- Soldiers--North Carolina--Biography.
- North Carolina--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 268 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Pamlico Sound is one of the most storied bodies of water among North Carolina's Outer Banks. Early colonists to Roanoke Island used it for protection. Blackboard the pirate was killed there in 1718, and General Washington relied on it for transportation in the Revolutionary War. It wasn't a surprise, then, that the Confederate bastion of Fort Ocracoke was built in those same waters. Said to be capable of mounting fifty guns, the fort was part of the coastal defense system of the state. After Union victories on nearby Hatteras Island, the fort was destroyed and its whereabouts lost for generations. Author Robert K. Smith led an archaeological mission to find the once lost fort and presents the harrowing story of its past and discovery for the first time. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The colonial period : a fort for Beacon Island
- A timeline of charts : anatomy of an island
- The Civil War period
- Whispers from our past
- Archaeology : method, equipment, mapping and conclusions
- Appendix A : The Washington Grays
- Appendix B : List of recovered artifacts and provenience [sic] information.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781626199033
- 1626199035
- OCLC:
- 899229782
- Publisher Number:
- 99963183629
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