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Click Here for a full account of the Second Battle of Fort Fisher, including numbers of casualties and prisoners. From the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume XLVI, Part I, Section 1," and the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies, Series I, Volume 11," many official reports from Union officers assert that Union forces took possession of Fort Fisher around 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. on January 15th. The fort had earlier been evacuated by much of the Confederate garrison, which took refuge at Battery Buchanan, hoping to be removed to safety via Confederate boats along the Cape Fear River; they were not, and these were seized as prisoners around 10:45 p.m. Most sources agree that the Confederate garrison within Fort Fisher surrendered about 1,900 men that night. The Confederate forces at Sugar Loaf were not captured that night, and they soon made their way back to Wilmington to fight again. |
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Fort Fisher Garrison Col. William Lamb,
Commandant (POW), Maj. Gen. William H.C. Whiting (POW), 10th NC Regiment (1st Artillery) Detachment
Maj. James Reilly (POW), 36th NC Regiment (2nd Artillery) Detachment
Col. William Lamb (POW), 40th NC Regiment (3rd Artillery) Detachment: 1st NC Battalion-Heavy Artillery Detachment: 3rd NC Battalion-Light Artillery Detachment: 13th NC Battalion-Light Artillery Detachment: Staunton Hill Artillery (VA) Capt. Andrew B. Paris CSA Navy Detachment Led by Lt. Robert T. Chapman, CSA Marine Corps Detachment Led by Capt. A.C.
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Bvt. Maj. Gen. Alfred H. Terry Commanding
Officer, 2nd Division (XXIV Corps) Brig. Gen.
Adelbert Ames with 3,300 men, 1st Brigade Bvt. Brig. Gen. Newton Martin
Curtis (wounded), 2nd Brigade Col. Galusha Pennypacker
(wounded), 3rd Brigade Col. Louis Bell (mortally
wounded), 3rd Division (XXV Corps) Brig. Gen. Charles J. Paine with 3,300 men, 2nd Brigade Col. John W. Ames, 3rd Brigade Col. Elias Wright, 1st Division (XXIV Corps), 2nd Brigade
Col. Joseph C. Abbott, Artillery: Bvt. Brig. Gen. Henry L. Abbott, 1st CT Heavy Artillery Detachment Capt. William
G. Pride, 16th Independent Battery, NY Light Artillery Capt. Richard H. Lee, Battery E, 3rd U.S. Artillery Lt. John Myrick, Engineers: 15th NY Engineers Detachment Lt. Keefe Samuel O'Keefe, Naval Landing Party Fleet Capt. (Lt.
Cdr.) Kidder R. Breese, with 1,600 Sailors and 400 Marines, |
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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume XLVI, Part I, Section 1, PP.393-447. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies, Series I, Volume 11, PP.394-599. |
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