Lieutenant General John Bell Hood resigns his command of the shattered Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Tennessee.
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The Second Battle of Fort Fisher (North Carolina) ends: After three days of fighting, Major General Alfred H. Terry, compulsory Union Department of Virginia and North Carolina, captures Fort Fisher commanded by Colonel William Lamb. This leaves Wilmington, North Carolina, the last remaining free port in the Confederacy, untenable.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 302.
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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