Second Battle of Fort Fisher
January 13–15, 1865 · Fort Fisher, North Carolina
Result Union victory
Successful January 1865 assault by the Union Army, Navy, and Marine Corps on Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina. The fort, sometimes called the Gibraltar of the South, was the Confederacy's last major coastal stronghold and a port for blockade runners supplying the Army of Northern Virginia; its capture closed a critical supply route.
