Second Battle of Fort Fisher

BelligerentsUnited StatesConfederate StatesCommanders and leadersAlfred H. Terry
David D. PorterBraxton Bragg
William H.C. Whiting  (DOW)
Robert Hoke
William LambUnits involved

Department of Virginia and North Carolina:

• Terry's Provisional Corps (units detached from XXIV and XXV Corps)

North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

• U.S. Marines

Fort Fisher Garrison
Hoke's DivisionStrength

• 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)

Total Federal casualties 1,0571,900 (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.