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Beauregard's Tailor provides authentically constructed Confederate, Federal, and civilian clothing items based on surviving originals, period photographs, or first person descriptions of 19th century clothing.

For Holmes - Smith Island (modern day Bald Head Island) - defensive works of the Cape Fear River. By the fall of 1863 Wi...
08/11/2026

For Holmes - Smith Island (modern day Bald Head Island) - defensive works of the Cape Fear River.

By the fall of 1863 Wilmington, North Carolina (about 30 miles up the Cape Fear River) was the only port on the Atlantic Ocean within the Confederacy that was still open. Because of concern that the Federals might occupy Smith Island and thereby shut down both inlets to the Cape Fear River construction was begun on a fort on the island in September of 1863. The batteries and ramparts were built of dirt and sand. There were five large artillery batteries (Battery Holmes and batteries 1-4) made of palmetto and pine trees from the island that mounted 15 cannons. Battery Holmes was the largest battery and contained a 10-inch Columbiad, a 100-pound seacoast cannon, and 6 other unknown guns. It predates the other batteries and there was a pier or dock there. Battery #1 had a 10-inch Columbiad, Battery #2 a 100-pounder Brooke cannon, and Battery #4 three 24-pounder cannons, one 32-pounder cannon and a bombproof magazine.

The earthworks were up to 86-feet thick at the base and 25-feet high. About 1,100 troops from the 40th North Carolina under Colonel John Hedrick were stationed there. The fort was abandoned after Fort Fisher fell in January of 1865. By 1871 Battery Holmes was underwater. By 1883 the entirety of Bald Head Point and Batteries 1 and 2 were washed away but the rest of the fort remained protected by elevations of the island’s main dune ridge and foliage. Since that time accretion has displaced the shoreline of the island further south and the locations of batteries 1 and 2 are once more on land, while Battery Holmes still remains underwater in the channel.

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