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Fort Fisher falls sealing off Confederate Wilmington
Union forces under Maj. Gen. Alfred H. Terry and Admiral David Porter assault Fort Fisher on January 15 1865 after a bombardment by 44 ships with 627 guns. Garrison commander Col William Lamb is wounded and later captured as Union troops seize the fort and Wilmington falls sealing off the Confederacy from outside aid.
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Merton T. Akers
United Press International
Confederacy
Fort Fisher
Wilmington
N.C
Benjamin F. Butler
Butler
Fortress
Monroe
Ulysses S. Grant
Alfred H. Terry
David D. Porter
Terry
Porter
Atlantic Ocean
William Lamb
Norfolk
W. H. C. Whiting
Whiting
Braxton) Bragg
Lamb