Battle of Fort Fisher Results, Confederate and Union Casualties, List of Killed Captured Wounded Soldiers, Totals, Fort Fisher North Carolina Battlefield Maps, Pictures, Photographs of Fort Fisher Blockade

FORT FISHER GARRISON
Forces Engaged:
Command	Effectives
Garrison	Approx. 1,550
Reinforcements January 15:
Elements of the 11th, 21st, and 25th SC Infantry	350
Approximate Total:	1,900

Casualties:
Killed and Wounded (approx.)	500
Captured (approx.)	1,400
Approximate Total:	1,900

Guns in Position When Captured:
No.	Weapon	Condition	Carriage
		LAND FACE
1	10-inch columbiad	Unserviceable	Unserviceable
2	6 3/8-inch rifle (old 32)	"	Serviceable
3	8-inch smoothbore - 1841	Serviceable	Unserviceable
4	8-inch smoothbore - 1841	Unserviceable	"
5	8-inch columbiad	Serviceable	Serviceable
6	4½-inch Parrott rifle	"	"
7	6 3/8-inch smoothbore (32)	Unserviceable	"
8	5 7/8-inch smoothbore (24)	"	Unserviceable
9	6 3/8-inch smoothbore (32)	"	"
10	5½-inch Coehorn mortar	Serviceable	Serviceable
11	6 3/8-inch smoothbore (32)	Unserviceable	Unserviceable
12	5½-inch Coehorn mortar	Serviceable	Serviceable
13	6½-inch smoothbore (32)	"	"
14	8-inch smoothbore (32)	"	Unserviceable
15	6 3/8-inch smoothbore (32)	"	Serviceable
16	6 3/8-inch smoothbore (32)	"	Unserviceable
17	6 3/8-inch smoothbore (32)	Unserviceable	"
18	6 3/8-inch rifle (32)	Serviceable	"
19	7-inch Brooke rifle	"	Serviceable
20	6 3/8-inch rifle (32)	"	Unserviceable
21	6 3/8-inch rifle (32)	Unserviceable	"
22	10-inch columbiad	"	"
23	8-inch mortar	Serviceable	Serviceable
24	8-inch smoothbore	"	"
		SEA FACE
25	8-inch Blakely rifle	Serviceable	Serviceable
26	10-inch columbiad	"	Unserviceable
27	6 3/8-inch rifle (32)	"	"
28	10-inch columbiad	"	"
29	----------	----------	----------
30	10-inch columbiad	"	Serviceable
31	8-inch columbiad	"	"
32	8-inch columbiad	"	"
33	8-inch columbiad	"	Unserviceable
34	8-inch columbiad	"	Serviceable
35	7-inch Brooke rifle	Unserviceable	Unserviceable
36	8-inch columbiad	Serviceable	Serviceable
37	6 3/8-inch rifle (32)	"	"
38	6 3/8-inch rifle (32)	"	"
39	150-pdr. Armstrong rifle	"	"
40	10-inch columbiad	"	"
41	10-inch columbiad	"	"
42	7-inch Brooke rifle	Serviceable	"
43	6 3/8-inch rifle (32)	"	"
44	10-inch columbiad	"	"
45	10-inch columbiad	"	"
46	10-inch columbiad	"	Unserviceable
47	6 3/8-inch rifle (32)	"	Serviceable
See Map of Fort Fisher		TOP

HOKE'S DIVISION
Forces Engaged:
Command	Effectives
Hoke's Division	Approx. 6,400
Casualties: None reported for Hoke's demonstration on the Union northern line on January 15, but the division probably lost a few men on the skirmish line (Kirkland's and Clingman's Brigades).

UNITED STATES ARMY
Forces Present:
Command	Effectives
From official returns for January 10, 1865*
	Officers	Men	Aggregate
General Headquarters	12	12	24
Ames's division (2nd, XXIV)	192	3,787	4,243
Paine's division (3rd, XXV)	160	3,149	3,683
Abbott's brigade (2, 1, XXIV)	65	1,385	1,494
16th New York Battery	3	42	45
3rd U.S. Artillery (E)	4	55	61
Detachment Signal Corps	4	27	31
Ambulance Corps	-----	-----	51
Total:	440	8,457	9,632
*Officers and men reported as present for duty. Aggregate reported as Aggregate present.

Casualties:1
Second Division, XXIV Army Corps: Ames
Unit	Killed	Wounded	Missing	Total
XXIV A.C. HQ	-----	1	-----	1
Division Staff	-----	4	-----	4
(1) Curtis	39	184	5	228
(2) Pennypacker	51	227	2	280
(3) Bell	16	97	2	115
First Division, XXIV Army Corps
(2) Abbott	4	23	4	31
Third Division, XXV Army Corps
(3) 27th USCT	1	4	-----	5
Total:	111	540	13	6642
1From official returns. 2In addition, 1 officer and 4 men, 112th NY; and 1 man, 142nd NY were wounded on January 14; for a total of 670. Unofficial army returns place the total at 955 battle victims (184 killed, 749 wounded, and 22 missing)., with at least another 104 casualties from the magazine explosion on January 16 (25 killed, 66 wounded, and 13 missing).

UNITED STATES NAVY
Forces Engaged:
Number of Warships	58
Naval Shore Contingent	(Sailors and Marines) 2,261

Casualties:
Command	Totals
From official returns.
Sailors	Officers	Men	Aggregate
Killed:	6	75	81
Wounded:	24	198	222
Missing:	-----	29	29
Marines
Killed:	-----	7	7
Wounded:	2	47	49
Missing:	-----	5	5
Total:	32	361	393

Rounds Expended:
Number of Projectiles	Weight
19,682	1,652,638 pounds
Combined with numbers from the December 1864 bombardment, the projectiles expended equal 39,953—with a weight of 2,927,937 pounds. The projectile numbers are officially suffixed with this statement: "It is estimated that the above statement includes between 90 and 95 percent of the projectiles actually expended."

TOTAL FEDERAL CASUALTIES: 2ND FORT FISHER

The combined army and navy losses range somewhere between 1,167 and 1,452 killed, wounded, and missing—based upon published figures available, as listed above.

COMBINED UNION AND CONFEDERATE CASUALTIES
for the December 1864 and January 1865 Engagements
— December 1864 —
Command	Killed	Wounded	C/M	Total
Federal Army	1	11	1	13
Federal Navy	20	63	-----	83
Fort Fisher	3	58	-----	61
Hoke's Division	5	16	307	328
— January 1865 —
Federal Army	209	815	35	1,059*
Federal Navy	88	271	34	393
Subtotal:	326	1,234	377	1,937
Fort Fisher	500		1,400	1,900
Aggregate:	2,060		1,777	3,837
*Unofficial army figure of 955, plus 104 from the magazine explosion. (Based upon the "official" tally of 670, this figure would equal 774). The navy, however, also reported a loss of eight men in the magazine explosion. It is unclear whether these men are included in the total for this tragedy. (It is thought that about 200 men, both Union and Confederate, were lost in the explosion. It is further unclear whether the Confederate losses in the explosion are included in the often-cited approximate figure of 500 killed and wounded for the garrison).
Approximate Total Federal Casualties for Both Engagements				1,548
Based upon the "official" army tally of 670, this figure would equal 1,263.
Approximate Total Confederate Casualties for Both Engagements				2,289
Combined Union and Confederate Casualties for Both Engagements				3,837
Based upon the "official" Federal army tally of 670, this figure would equal 3,552.
The exact number of casualties in the battles for Fort Fisher will never be known. Confederate records are sketchy, and wide discrepancies exist between the various Federal numbers published. In addition, the figure for the magazine mishap is incomplete.

Sources:
United States War Department. The War of the Rebellion, A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.

United States Navy Department. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1900-1901.

Johnson, Robert U. and Clarence C. Buel, eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. 4 vols. New York: The Century Company, 1884-1889.

As compiled and tabulated in:
The Wilmington Campaign and the Battles for Fort Fisher.
by Mark A. Moore — (Da Capo Press, 1999).

Credit: ah.dcr.state.nc.us; © Mark A. Moore