The Civil War on the OBX: 1861′s Forgotten Story Gets New Attention
While most of the sesquicentennial spotlight this year has focused on Ft. Sumter and First Manassas, the North Carolina coast has also been commemorating events. After all, the fall of the Outer Banks-beginning with the Confederate surrender at Hatteras Inlet in late August of 1861-represented the first major Union success of the war. It also represented the first success for the Anaconda Plan-the North’s attempt to strangle the Confederacy by cutting off its shipping capacity.
While the Outer Banks proved to be an important theater of operations during the early war, events there have largely been forgotten-until now. Read on, Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.
(Includes a photo survey of some of the OBX's Civil War markers.)
While the Outer Banks proved to be an important theater of operations during the early war, events there have largely been forgotten-until now. Read on, Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.
(Includes a photo survey of some of the OBX's Civil War markers.)