N.C. historical marker to honor role of black troops in Civil War
Thursday, June 2, 2011
(Updated 5:08 am)
WILMINGTON (AP) — An N.C. Highway Historical Marker is being dedicated to mark the participation of U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War battle to capture Fort Fisher in January and February of 1865.
The marker will be dedicated this morning at the National Cemetery in Wilmington, which is the largest USCT burial ground in North Carolina. The cemetery records show 88 black members of the USCT and four white officers are buried there.
Fort Fisher remained open to blockade runners supplying necessary goods to Confederate armies until the last few months of the war. The Civil War ended in April, a few months after the fort fell.
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