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Fort fisher occurred at kure beach north carolina  the union was trying to take control of the last open port while the confederacy was trying to guard the last open port union ended up winning as the remaining confederates surrendered  fort fisher did play a semi important role because it was the only open  ports By the winter of 1865, Fort Fisher guarded the last remaining open port for the Confederacy at Wilmington, North Carolina. Despite failing to take it in December of 1864, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant decided overtake the fort a second time and sent a Union force of nearly 9,000 men under the command of Maj Gen. Alfred Terry and several ships under the command of Rear Admiral David D. Porter to take the fort and its 1,900 defenders.Since the start of the Civil War, the Union Navy initiated a blockade known as the Anaconda Plan that was poised to cut off vital Confederate seaports from the world market. By the winter of 1864, most Southern ports were captured or cut off, except for Wilmington, North Carolina, the last open Southern port. To capture and cut it off from the Atlantic Ocean, the Union Navy and Army had to take Fort Fisher. By early 1865, the Union officials gathered enough men and ships to take the Fort.Union Victory. After several hours of intense fighting and having his defenses overrun, a wounded Maj. Gen. William H.C. Witting decided to surrender his garrison of 1,900 men to the Union army. By the time Gen. Alfred Colquitt arrived, Confederates were evacuating the fort, and Whiting and Lamb lay wounded. After hours of battle, the Confederates surrendered the fort. The Southern defenses around Wilmington crumbled, and the city fell to Union soldiers roughly one month later. The last Confederate port was locked shut, and the flow of outside supplies ceased to reach the languishing Confederate field armies.

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union leader

1,057 union casualties

After this narrowly averted fiasco, David Dixon Porter moved east to command the North Atlantic Squadron. His assault on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in conjunction with Union General Alfred H. Terry, earned Porter his fourth Thanks of Congress.At the close of the Civil War, Porter was promoted to Vice Admiral. He became the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and was appointed by President Grant as special advisor to the Navy Department. He was promoted to Admiral in 1870, following Farragut. David Dixon Porter died on February 13, 1891.

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1,9000 confederate casualties

He and his division were once again sent to North Carolina after the battle, where he participated in the defense of Fort Fisher, the Carolina Campaign, and finally at the Battle of Bentonville, where his gallantry was noted.  He finally surrendered to Union forces with General Joseph E. Johnston in April of 1865, and was pardoned May 1, 1865.

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The Battle of Bentonville was fought in Johnston County, North Carolina, near the village of Bentonville, as part of the Western Theater of the American Civil War. It was the last battle between the armies of Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.