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Charles Fredrick Fisher
b.26 Dec 1821
- Charles Fredrick Fisher1821 - 1861
Facts and Events
Charles Frederick Fisher (26 December 1816-21
July 1861). Charles F. Fisher attended Yale University in 1835,
but returned to Salisbury after one semester. He worked in his
father's mining companies and became co-publisher of the Western
Carolinian, a political newspaper supporting the philosophy of
John C. Calhoun. In 1855, he was elected president of the North
Carolina Railroad. While serving as president, he received a
contract for construction of part of the western route of the
railroad. This action angered some of the stockholders, but
Fisher was reelected president in 1859 without incident. Fisher
volunteered for the Confederate army and was elected colonel of
the 6th North Carolina Regiment. He was killed in the Battle of
First Manassas. His close friend, S. L. Fremont, named Fort
Fisher on the Cape Fear River in his honor.
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