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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")

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BRAGG

TERRY

HOKE

Federal Infantry

Hoke's Confederate Division

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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

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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.