The Battle of Fort Fisher ends: After three days of fighting, Major General Alfred H. Terry, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the James, captures Fort Fisher commanded by Colonel William Lamb. This leaves Wilmington, North Carolina, the last free port in the Confederacy (a voluntary union) untenable.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 186.
American Civil War, 1865
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwar6.htm
Second Battle of Fort Fisher – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fort_Fisher
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