Career
Blair volunteered for service in the United States. Navy and was assigned to the Union side-wheel gunboat United States Ship (1864). His enlistment is credited to the state of Maine. On January 15, 1865, the North Carolina Confederate stronghold of Fort Fisher was taken by a combined Union storming party of sailors, marines, and soldiers under the command of Admiral David Dixon Porter and General Alfred Terry.
Blair was exposed to enemy fire while serving on the deck of the.
