There are 1062 users online
You can register for a user account here.
Login
Military Photos
Main Menu
Online
Library of Congress
Past Articles
Military Quotes
We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction. -- General Douglas MacArthur |
Fort Macon, 1862(151 total words in this text)(2041 Reads)  Other Names: None Location: Carteret County Campaign: Burnside?s North Carolina Expedition (January-July 1862) Date(s): March 23-April 26, 1862 Principal Commanders: Brig. Gen. John G. Parke [US]; Lt. Col. Moses J. White [CS] Forces Engaged: Parke?s Division of Department of North Carolina, 3rd Division [US]; Fort Macon Garrison [CS] Estimated Casualties: 490 total (US 10; CS 480) Description: In late March, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside?s army advanced on Fort Macon, a third system casemated masonry fort that commanded the channel to Beaufort, 35 miles southeast of New Berne. The Union force invested the fort with siege works and, on April 26, opened an accurate fire on the fort, which soon breached the masonry walls. Within a few hours the fort?s scarp began to collapse, and the Confederates hoisted a white flag. This action demonstrated the inadequacy of masonry forts against large-bore, rifled artillery. Result(s): Union victory |
Military History
Forum Posts
This Day in History
1861:
Robert E. Lee is named commander of Virginia forces.
1863: Colonel Benjamin Griersons troops bring destruction to central Mississippi on a two-week raid along the entire length of the state. 1898: In the first action of the Spanish-American War, the USS Nashville, takes on a Spanish ship. 1915: German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. 1944: Allied forces land in the Hollandia area of New Guinea. 1945: Hitler admits to all in his underground bunker that the war is lost and that suicide is his only recourse. 1951: The Chinese launched their spring offensive with a heavy artillery barrage northeast of Yonchon. The Battle of the Imjin River began. 1995: In Africa, Rwandan troops kill thousands of Hutu refugees in Kibeho. |
