Fort Fisher Deep Dive PART 1: North Carolina Video Tour! 

Its good of you to warn people, for their sakes, & dogs too. Watching from Perth, Australia. 🇦🇺 Civil war enthusiast.

Yes these are called sand spurs and they are very sharp! Don’t have to worry about them on the beach itself, but anywhere else...

Shell cases from rifles or artillery….

@@bryanwiedeman3154 Sorry for the late reply. The battle had 3 days of shelling, from the union ships, so the ones I found had to have been from the shells…

If you're reffering to the mounds than the soil was brought in from the interior of the fort. Just behind the land face is a considerable crater still visible where the sand for the mounds was acquired.

I’m not a historian but Ill try to answer this question for you. Just don’t hold it against me if it’s incorrect. I live in Wilmington and run and surf fort fisher every day, the river inlet is wide, deep, and turbulent. The ocean is also noticeably “heavier” in terms of surf and tide so it would be difficult if not impossible to scuttle enough ships to entirely block the access. Also, most importantly blockade runners took to just traveling up and down the very long coast like and could unload their cargo right on the beach which was then run a short distance (less than 2 miles) across the peninsula and load their transport ships waiting on the river side. There are still sunken blockade runners sitting in 12ft of water just off the beach you can see at low tide. Long story short, there was simply too much water to cover in order to use scuttled ships. Edit: I accidentally sent the reply before finishing.

@@ericballard6789 Thanks Eric, that was very helpful. I would really like to get a better understanding of just what these blockades were. I am an avid consumer of information in regards to the land war but am very ignorant about what happened at sea. When I think of the blockade I imagine an unbroken line of ships patrolling the inlet and shorelines; obviously that's not reality either.

@@AngryDogPerformance not a problem. Again I’m no historian but essentially blockades are most successful when they are able to control the water well enough to provide the blockade you are imagining. The port of Charleston is a good example of a successful blockade. The difference at fort fisher is the sheer inability to cover all the available water while also dodging the artillery fire from the fort fisher battery. So until the union was able to overthrow the fortification they could not get their ships close enough to close off the waterway effectively

Disagree about the drawn maps, can underarand the entire forts systems from it. But I also understand they maybe should have used a modern map after to make it more clear to those without lap reading knowledge in fort construction.