Wilmington (Union base after February 1865)
Port, Wilmington, North Carolina.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- Wilmington, North Carolina
- Years
- 1865
- Today
- Museum
WILMINGTON UNION BASE
Union troops entered Wilmington on February 22, 1865. Schofield prepared a column toward Goldsboro and work to repair the railroad, and Grant named Wilmington one of two bases for stockpiling twenty days of rations and forage for 60,000 men and 20,000 animals.
Then
Union troops entered Wilmington on February 22, 1865. Schofield prepared a column from Wilmington toward Goldsboro and work to repair the railroad from the city, and Wilmington was one of the two bases Grant named for stockpiling twenty days of rations and forage for 60,000 men and 20,000 animals.
Now
Museum
The old Wilmington and Weldon Railroad freight station on the Cape Fear River houses the Wilmington Railroad Museum.
Lines owned by CSX run through Wilmington today.
Served by
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