Fort Anderson: North Carolina Video Tour!

After Fort Fisher fell to Union forces, the Confederates still held powerful Fort Anderson. Could a veteran of Antietam and Franklin compromise the fort? Join historian Chris Fonvielle Jr. and Site Manager Jim McKee at the “best preserved Confederate earthen fort”!
Check out more of Chris's work at his website: www.chrisfonvielle.com/
This video is part of our Petersburg and North Carolina Battlefield Tour series. Be sure to check out all of the other videos here: • Petersburg and North C...

[@jamesgannon8914]

Jim is a great guy! Always full of enthusiasm!

[@jasonalexander1406]

Keeping history alive !! The American battlefield trust thank y'all

[@ret4350]

At Kure Beach on vacation. Just the video I needed.

[@ItCanChangeYouToo]

hope you visited it!

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

That was great! Always learning something new. Thanks!

[@MindofJamal]

Love these videos

[@tinaphillips7239]

Great video! Need to go visit this fort too. We’ve been to fort fisher and enjoyed it. But also couldn’t help but notice Jim’s Carolina Hurricanes hat. We are diehard Nashville Predators fans here n Chattanooga and are currently watching them play the hurricanes. Lol

[@daviddeaton2217]

Great job 👏

[@model-man7802]

This is now on my list of places I must see.

[@ronaldlemongello6116]

American Battlefield trust has the best videos..amazing knowledge from all involved..thanks for all your hard work!

[@americancivilwarukhistory9769]

Definitely visiting this one day

[@jhroenigk]

Amazing videos. Y'all do a great job of making this history come to life. One of these days I'll make it out to NC!

[@AlGreenLightThroughGlass]

Amazing preservation and presentation; didn't know Gen Schofield ended up over there after Franklin/Nashville

[@noelp4916]

Great video. Thanks. 🇦🇺

[@michaelamanek8908]

Gary enthusiasm is terrific

[@ericfapton3903]

oh yeah keep making them videos!

[@paulwingerter8267]

USS Montauk was the ship on which the Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth took place at or near the Navy Yard in Washington DC in April 1865.

[@Dive-Bar-Casanova]

Garry is the franchise. He should guest host Jeopardy.

[@outdoorlife5396]

I have seen the sign several times. I thought it was another Ft Fisher, just a sand dune. I remember when they pulled the gun at Ft Fisher out of the water and started preserving Fisher.

[@leondarko8491]

Wow when did they start pulling out the gun? This most recent visit to Fort Fisher that I made I found some old civil war bullet casings and an actual bullet. I also found a button for an old uniform and it had a train on it. I was STUNNED. I'm obsessed with history, more fascinated by the revolutionary war..

[@outdoorlife5396]

@@leondarko8491 It was during the 80's I think. When they started trying to save what was left of the fort. They pulled a gun out of the water and saved the battery they have now. You have to go to the museum and use your imagination on how big this fort was

[@fateagle4life]

JWB was given an autopsy on board the Montauk!!

[@Blupearl2003]

I wonder if her has ever been to Fort Macon in NC.

[@Yanks123Fan]

As an Atlantic Beach Nc native I can vouch. The staff there has done one of the best jobs preserving a civil war era fort I have ever seen (arguably the best as almost all of it is in tact and in good shape and kept up pristinely)

[@michaellaverty1844]

Why was this Battlefield preserved so well. Being water front property I would have thought it would have been developed.

[@ericballard6789]

It’s right next to a nuclear power plant, but I’m not sure how much of it is that or if it’s privately owned.

[@ericballard6789]

I believe it is owned by the state too. There is a military complex right near by as well

[@mmiller626]

The fort is on state land, bordered on the south side by Military Terminal Sunny Pount (roughly 8500 acres), surrounded on the west and north by Orton Plantation which is another 5,000 acres+/- , so luckily the fort is in a protected location.

[@zaccstacc4568]

its in the middle of nowhere

[@phillipsmith4814]

Great scenery and. enthusiasm, but I was lost throughout the video. Please, please, please, in the future use good quality 5 color terrain maps to orient the audience as to what you are describing. I knew nothing about this particular battle before watching this and unfortunately I learned little about it other than the fort was defeated from the rear. The one map that was used, was an all tan and blank period map which was not helpful. Please keep making these videos but remember that a map is worth a thousand words, at least. Finally you might add animated arrows to the a map to show movement and specific features or locations. Otherwise I do applaud you work. Thanks.

[@noelp4916]

Didn't Robert E Lee oversee the fortifications along that coast line early on in the war ? 🇦🇺

[@ItCanChangeYouToo]

Went to Fort Anderson years ago. If a visitors center sells bug spray, use it! They sell it for a reason. I did not.

[@rr8753]

Autophy of John Wilkes Booth .

[@tomp7621]

John Wilkes Booth autopsy

[@inthedarkwoods2022]

I wouldn't call them "miracles"

[@Jguttrrrr]

This gentleman is using too many words that people don’t understand..he needs to convert his speech into lamens terms