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in 1835, but failed to complete his freshman year. Fisher married Ruth Caldwell (daughter of businessman and legislator from Greensboro County, North Carolina, David Caldwell), and they had three children who were reared by relatives after Fisher's death. Although the Fishers were Lutheran or
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Company). In 1859, despite Worth's continued criticism, the railroad's stockholders (including Whigs) re-elected Fisher as its president. Fisher became friends with Vermont-born Sewall Lawrence Fremont (nÊe Fish, 1816–1886), a former U.S. Army artilleryman who had become chief engineer and
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Although he never received a formal educational degree, Fisher became farmer, miner, and journalist in his home Rowan County. His father was a politician for 28 years, much of which time Fisher supported him as copublisher of the
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Fisher was born in Salisbury in 1816 to Christine Beard Fisher and her husband, legislator and plantation owner Charles Fisher. His paternal grandfather, Frederick Fisher, had migrated to western North Carolina from
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Fisher was buried at the Old Lutheran Cemetery in Salisbury. Propaganda made Fisher an early hero of the
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commanding the 6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. He died leading a charge on a
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Confederate States of America military personnel killed in the American Civil War
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and died in battle as an officer leading the 6th North Carolina regiment of the
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or other Union soldiers from the Sudley Road will never be known.
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as well as Fisher's cousin (who became General after that battle)
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relating to the subject at the North Carolina Museum of History
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and later become an author of many novels, some supporting the
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established memorial markers. North Carolina chief justice
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Salisbury, North Carolina
Manassas, Virginia
Salisbury, North Carolina
Confederate States of America
Confederate States Army

Colonel
American Civil War
First Battle of Bull Run

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North Carolina Railroad
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Shenandoah County, Virginia
American Revolutionary War
Yale University

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