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7193
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William Henry Chase Whiting, a brilliant engineer and West Point graduate in the class of 1845, designed and oversaw the construction of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse. He finished the structure in the fall of 1859. The light flashed for the first time on November 1, 1859, just a few days after John Brown's attack at Harper's Ferry. At the outbreak of war, Whiting joined the Confederate Army and in 1862 was promoted to brigadier general. He was mortally wounded in 1865, during the massive assault by Union forces on Fort Fisher outside Wilmington. Whiting's design was so successful that after the Civil War three other lighthouses in the state - Cape Hatteras, Bodie Island, and Currituck Beach - followed its design.
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37606
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Chronicled is Wilmington’s Fort Fisher on December 24th, 1864, and January 13th, 1865. Key players in the battles hinting the Confederacy’s end: Union Generals Sherman and Grant; Confederate Generals Lamb, Whiting, and Bragg. Factors contributing to the outcome were General Whiting’s garrison outnumbered 6 to 1 during the second assault and General Bragg’s belief in Fort Fisher’s invulnerability.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 7, December 2014,
p193-194, 196, 198, 200, 202, 204, por
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Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)--Siege, 1864-1865; Fort Fisher (New Hanover County); Fort Fisher (New Hanover County)--Description and travel; Sherman, William T., 1820-1891; Grant, Ulysses S. ; Lamb, William, 1835-1909; Whiting, William Henry Chase, 1824-1865; Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876; Terry, Alfred Howe; Porter, David D., 1813-1891; Civil War