battle of fort macon

The Battle of Fort Macon took place from March 23 - April 26, 1862 in Carteret County, North Carolina as part of Union Army General Ambrose E. Burnside's North Carolina expedition during the American Civil War. In late March, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnsides 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 forts scarp began to collapse, and the Confederates hoisted a white flag. This action demonstrated the inadequacy of masonry forts against large-bore, rifled artillery.

References

CWSAC Battle Summaries, National Park Service

Fort Macon

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