Attorney-General of Confederacy, Governor of N.C. 1855-59, U.S. Senator. Home stands one block north.
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Daughter of Robert E. Lee & Mary Custis Lee. Was buried 1/2 mile W. General Lee visited her grave in 1870.
Confederate shipyard and outfitting station which completed the ironclad steam sloop Raleigh in 1863. Site is three blocks west.
Was enslaved Bellamy plasterer. Escaped 1862 and joined Union navy. Kept detailed war diary. Lived 2 blocks north.
Large Confederate fort, remains here. After a strong Union attack it was evacuated on Feb. 18, 1865, resulting in the fall of Wilmington.
Former slave. Freedom fighter; Union recruiter and spy; legislator. Led a delegation that met President Lincoln, 1864. Lived one block east.
Blockade runner. Ran aground and sank 400 yds. E., June 1862. Its salvage 1962 led state to open an underwater archaeology office.
Civil War cavalryman. Among highest ranking North Carolinians in the United States Colored Troops. Legislator, 1868-70. Grave 1/2 mile west.
Black soldiers & white officers in Union army, 1863-1865. About 500 involved in Wilmington campaign buried here.
Confederate major general and engineer. He devised the Cape Fear defense system. Wounded nearby in fall of fort. Died in Union hospital.