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Sugar Loaf
Craig'sWharf
Wharf
CampWyatt
Hospital
MoundBatteryBattery
Buchanan
ONE MILE
HOWARD'SHILL
BatteryHolland
The Opposing Lineson Federal Point
January 14, 1865
Commissary
New Inlet
Fort
Fisher
BatteryGatlin
Battery Anderson("Flag Pond Battery")
Cape F
ear R
ive r
BRAGG
TERRY
HOKE
Federal Infantry
Hoke's Confederate Division
Wil
min
gto
n
MyrtleSound
FEDERALPOINT
In the face ofHoke's Division,
some 6,400strong, Terry's
9,000-manProvisional Corps
advances southward.
LANDING
FEDERAL
Hoke's Division held its position at SugarLoaf while A. H. Terry's Federal infantrymarched down the peninsula. Terry's menerected a strong defensive line acrossFederal Point from Battery Anderson to theC a p e F e a r R i v e r .
Bragg ordered a tentative advance onTerry's force to the south, but soonreached the conclusion that Hoke lackedsufficient force to take the position. Hoker e t r e a t e d t o S u g a r L o a f .
Terry was now confident that his northernline would sufficiently protect the Federalcolumns of Ames' division as they attackedFort Fisher.
PAINEAbbott
AMES
Steam transportsunk by Confederate gunboat
to prevent itscapture by Federal troops.
Isaac Wells
Chickamauga
Lamb
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NC
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Jan. 13Burriss
© Mark A. Moore
Pond
AtlanticOcean
Union Fleet arrivesoff Fort Fisher fromthe port of Beaufort, NC.
Union NorthernLine begunJanuary 14.