NC Hoop Pole Creek Traditional Geocache

Hoop Pole Creek

Parke and the Union troops selected Hoop Pole Creek, about four miles west of the fort and directly across the sound from Carolina City, as their landing site. (Note: The name of the creek is misspelled on the marker but properly should be Hoop Pole.) On April 8 the first skirmish took place between the Union landing force and the detachments from the fort. Union troops sets up artillery positions on the banks leading up to the fort from the west. It took ten days for the Federals to wear down the Confederates. In the end the rebels’ firepower was no match for the Union’s and the fort’s commander, Col. Moses J. White, posted the white flag. Given the intensity of the firing, casualties on both sides were remarkably light.