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Created page with "{{ACWbattle |name=Battle of Fort Macon |image= |begin=March 23, 1862 |end=April 26, 1862 |place=Bogue Banks, Carteret County, North Carolina |theater=Eastern Theater |campaign=..."
{{ACWbattle
|name=Battle of Fort Macon
|image=
|begin=March 23, 1862
|end=April 26, 1862
|place=Bogue Banks, Carteret County, North Carolina
|theater=Eastern Theater
|campaign=Burnside’s North Carolina Expedition
|result=Union victory
|combatants1=Parke’s Division
|combatants2=Fort Macon Garrison
|commanders1=[[John G. Parke]]<br/>Brigadier General, USA
|commanders2=[[Moses J. White]]<br/>Lieutenant Colonel, CSA
|strength1=3259<br/>2649 actually present for duty<ref>''Official Records'' (Army) Series I, v. 9, p. 381)</ref>
|strength2=450<br/>263 actually ready for duty<ref>Trotter, William R. ''Ironclads and columbiads,'' Joseph F. Blair, 1989; p. 141.</ref>
|casualties1='''15'''<br/>Killed: 2<br/>Wounded: 5<br/>Captured: 8<ref>''Official Records'' (Army) Series I, v. 9, pp. 272, 281, 295.</ref>
|casualties2='''424+'''<br/>Killed: 8<br/>Wounded: 16<br/>Captured: 400 est.<ref>''Official Records'' (Army) Series I, v. 9, p. 294.</ref>
}}
In late March, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s army advanced on Fort Macon, a third system casemated masonry fort that commanded the channel to Beaufort, 35 miles southeast of New Berne. The Union force invested the fort with siege works and, on April 26, opened an accurate fire on the fort, which soon breached the masonry walls. Within a few hours the fort’s scarp began to collapse, and the Confederates hoisted a white flag. This action demonstrated the inadequacy of masonry forts against large-bore, rifled artillery. (''NPS summary'')
==References==
<small><references/></small>
{{Template:Campaignbox Burnside NC expedition}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1862}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]
|name=Battle of Fort Macon
|image=
|begin=March 23, 1862
|end=April 26, 1862
|place=Bogue Banks, Carteret County, North Carolina
|theater=Eastern Theater
|campaign=Burnside’s North Carolina Expedition
|result=Union victory
|combatants1=Parke’s Division
|combatants2=Fort Macon Garrison
|commanders1=[[John G. Parke]]<br/>Brigadier General, USA
|commanders2=[[Moses J. White]]<br/>Lieutenant Colonel, CSA
|strength1=3259<br/>2649 actually present for duty<ref>''Official Records'' (Army) Series I, v. 9, p. 381)</ref>
|strength2=450<br/>263 actually ready for duty<ref>Trotter, William R. ''Ironclads and columbiads,'' Joseph F. Blair, 1989; p. 141.</ref>
|casualties1='''15'''<br/>Killed: 2<br/>Wounded: 5<br/>Captured: 8<ref>''Official Records'' (Army) Series I, v. 9, pp. 272, 281, 295.</ref>
|casualties2='''424+'''<br/>Killed: 8<br/>Wounded: 16<br/>Captured: 400 est.<ref>''Official Records'' (Army) Series I, v. 9, p. 294.</ref>
}}
In late March, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s army advanced on Fort Macon, a third system casemated masonry fort that commanded the channel to Beaufort, 35 miles southeast of New Berne. The Union force invested the fort with siege works and, on April 26, opened an accurate fire on the fort, which soon breached the masonry walls. Within a few hours the fort’s scarp began to collapse, and the Confederates hoisted a white flag. This action demonstrated the inadequacy of masonry forts against large-bore, rifled artillery. (''NPS summary'')
==References==
<small><references/></small>
{{Template:Campaignbox Burnside NC expedition}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1862}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]