Fort Fisher has fallen; Wilmington will of course follow.
This was our last port into which blockade-runners were successful in entering,
and which furnished us with an immense amount of stores. What will be the
effect of this disaster we know not; we can only hope and pray.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 331
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