Second Battle of Fort Fisher

Second Battle of Fort Fisher
	Part of the American Civil War
	; The Assault and Capture of Fort Fisher, January 19, 1865. Harper's Weekly, February 4, 1865
Date	January 13–15, 1865
Location	New Hanover County, North Carolina33°58′17″N 77°55′05″W / 33.9715°N 77.9180°W
Result	Union victory
Belligerents
United States	Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
Alfred H. Terry; David D. Porter	Braxton Bragg; William H.C. Whiting (DOW); Robert Hoke; William Lamb
Units involved
Department of Virginia and North Carolina: Terry's Provisional Corps (units detached from XXIV and XXV Corps); North Atlantic Blockading Squadron	Fort Fisher Garrison; Hoke's Division
Strength
Army: 9,632; Navy: 58 ships; 2,261 (sailors/marines);	1,900 (Fort Fisher); 6,400 (Hoke's Division)
Casualties and losses
Army: 664 (111 killed; 540 wounded; 13 missing); Navy: 393 (88 killed; 271 wounded; 34 missing);	1,900 (583 killed and wounded; entire Fort Fisher garrison captured)

The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was a successful assault by the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina, near the end of the American Civil War in January 1865. Sometimes referred to as the "Gibraltar of the South" and the last major coastal stronghold of the Confederacy, Fort Fisher had tremendous strategic value during the war, providing a port for blockade runners supplying the Army of Northern Virginia.^[7]

^ National Park Service.
^ Further information: Official Records, Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 1, pp. 403–405
^ Further information: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies, Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 1, p. 265.
^ Further information: Official Records, Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 1, p. 403.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d North Carolina Historic Sites: Fort Fisher casualties.
^ Further information: Official Records, Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 1, p. 405
^ Kennedy, p. 402.