....org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> An extensive earthwork on a point of sandy land between the Cape Fear River at its mouth and the ocean, the land-face occupying the whole width of the cape known as Federal Point , and armed with twenty heavy guns. All along the land-front (1864) was a stockade, and on the sea-front were the wrecks of several blockade-runners. It was late in 1864 when an attempt was made t...