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Lot includes: Three First Traverses on Land End, Fort Fisher, N.C., Jan. 1865. 7 x 9 in. unmounted albumen photograph by Alexander Gardner from a Timothy H. O'Sullivan negative. This image is Plate 78 in Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. 1.25pp Confederate Civil War letter, 7 x 7.75 in., dated at Camp Badger (near) Ft. Fisher, N.C., Sun. eve. Feb 14th, 1864, signed "Hiah" to his mother, regarding meeting his father at Wilmington for supplies and noting the state of affairs in the camps around the fort and saying he had to edit his last telegram because the operator noted it could be considered "contraband" by mentioning the status of his company. The writer could be Hezekiah Williams, private in Co. C, 3rd North Carolina Light Artillery, who was wounded at Sugar Loaf, NC, (Fort Fisher area) on Feb. 15, 1865. Two copies of Capture of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, Jan. 15, 1865., by Gen. Adelbert Ames who commanded the 3rd Div., XXIV Corps, Army of the James. 6 x 9 in., paper wraps, 56pp. Curved-mount stereoview and 20th-century postcard of the "Capture of Fort Fisher," both from an 1887 Prang lithograph. The pamphlet A Colonial Apparition: The Story of Cape Fear, by James Sprunt, published by Harper's Steamboat Line, Wilmington, NC, 1909. 5.5 x 8.25 in., 16pp. 8pp from Harper's Magazine, Sept. 1866, focusing on the article "Wilmington During the Blockade, By a Late Confederate Officer" (John Johns).