NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL OPERATIONS OF 1861-62.

The article presents information on the North Carolina coastal operations of 1861-62. The first successful campaign of Union forces in the American Civil War was against the coastal area of North Carolina. This effort, which began in August 1861 and continued through the spring and summer of 1862, featured the first amphibious landing of the war and combined Army and Navy operations in an early success. Following closely on its heels was Ulysses S. Grant's successful campaign through Tennessee--perhaps not coincidentally also a combined Army-Navy expedition. The North Carolina operations in 1861 and 1862 never proved to be the disastrous blow to the Confederacy that Union military planners anticipated, despite the capture of key points in the coastal area.