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Fort Fisher Last Major Stronghold of the Confederacy At the dawn of the American Civil War, the Confederacy took control of a neck of land in southern North Carolina near the mouth of the Cape Fear River and constructed what was to become the largest and one of the most important earthwork fortifications in the South. Two major battles were fought there, and many Union soldiers were awarded the ...