Record #:

12780

Author(s):

Goins, Francis

Abstract:

Rainbow Fort, located on the Roanoke River, was built to protect Confederate gunboat projects occurring upstream at Edward's Ferry. Attacked by Union troops in November 1862, Rainbow Fort exists today as an unstudied ditch encompassing a battery.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 30 Issue 20, Mar 1963, p23, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Gunboats