Be sure to stop by Fort Fisher to see the exhibit on the war’s most famous femal spy.
The famous Confederate spy, Rose O’Neal Greenhow, was lost in the surf at Fort Fisher on September 30, 1864.
She had been aboard the blockade-runner Condor when the vessel ran aground near the fort.
She was rowed ashore, but the little craft capsized in the heavy surf. Weighted down by $2,000 in gold, the formidable lady drowned.
“Wild Rose” is buried at Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington. Here tombstone reads: “A bearer of dispatches to the Confederate Government.”
Fort Fisher
1610 Fort Fisher Boulevard
Kure Beach, NC
910 458-5538 ?