Fort Fisher, North Carolina

After Owen's first soccer game we drove down to Fort Fisher. We found a great café where we got some excellent fried chicken and hush puppies. They were having a family day or something like that and had their cannon up and running so we got to see it fire. Milton loved to see the "boom". Out of complete laziness, here is more about the Fort from Wikipedia. "Fort Fisher was a Confederate fort during the American Civil War. It protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina, from 1861 until its capture by the Union in 1865. The fort was located on one of Cape Fear River's two outlets to the Atlantic Ocean on what was then known as Federal Point or Confederate Point and today is known as Pleasure Island. The strength of Fort Fisher led to its being called the Southern Gibraltar and the "Malakoff Tower of the South". The battle of Fort Fisher was the most decisive battle of the Civil War fought in North Carolina."