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Fort Fisher

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Fort Fisher Confederate earthwork fortification, built by Gen. William Whiting in 1862 to guard the port of Wilmington, N.C.; scene of one of the last large battles of the Civil War. Because Wilmington was one of the few ports open to blockade-runners, a joint land-sea expedition under Gen. Benjamin Butler and Admiral David Porter was sent against Fort Fisher in Dec., 1864; the Union forces, however, failed to take it. A second attempt, with Gen. Alfred Terry replacing Butler, captured the fort on Jan. 15, 1865. The port was closed and Wilmington fell soon afterward. Fort Fisher is now a historic site.

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Fort Fisher a Confederate fort at the mouth of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina that was the subject of a Union attack toward the end of the Civil War in January 1865. The Union victory enabled an advance upriver and the capture of Wilmington, and the Confederacy lost its last open seaport.

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