Campaign : Burnside’s North Carolina Expedition.
Date : March 23-April 26, 1862.
Principal Commanders : Brig. Gen. John G. Parke [US]; Lt. Col. Moses J. White [CS].
Estimated Casualties : 490 total (US 10; CS 480).
Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s troops advanced on Fort Macon. Fort Macon was a third system casemated masonry fort that commanded the channel to Beaufort, 35 miles southeast of New Berne.
The Union troops invested the fort with siege works and, on April 26, opened an accurate fire on the fort.
Within a few hours the fort’s scarp began to collapse, and the Confederates surrendered.
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