and they used orton as kind of a giant mote. so the earth works ran to the lake and then you had another five miles of extended area that was impenetrable to ground orces. the fort was greatly expanded and artillery departments were built where heavy guns would be placed to point down river in case enemy vessels, union vessels, ever breached the inlets, got onto the river, to attack wilmington. well, next to charleston, which was the main southern seaport along the atlantic seaboard, wilmington was the most heavily fortified of the southern seaports. wilmington became the most important seaport in the south by 1863. it was the largest seaport in north carolina on the eve of the war. it was the largest city in north carolina when the war broke out. by 1863, when charleston was put under siege by union forces, wilmington became the most important southern seaport for receiving supplies that were smuggled into the confederacy onboard vessels known as blockade runners. surprisingly the union did not go after the forts or made an eff

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