Huggins Island Fort

About a mile to the southwest, on what was then called Huggins Island, Confederate forces completed a small fort in late eighteen sixty-one to guard the entrance to Bogue Inlet. After Union forces seized Fort Macon to the east in eighteen sixty-two, the inlet became a potential avenue for additional Union advances, and the small garrison here represented the coastal defense line. The cannons were removed when troops were called north to defend New Bern.

Later in eighteen sixty-two, a Union reconnaissance force burned the barracks and ammunition magazine to the ground. Today the earthworks survive as one of the best preserved examples of Confederate coastal fortifications on the North Carolina shore.