Casualties and Other Numbers

December 24-25, 1864

Fort Fisher Garrsion

Forces Engaged

COMMAND	EFFECTIVES
Garrison	Approx. 425
Reinforcements December 21:
C.S. Navy Detachment	28
Reinforcements December 23:
40th NC Regiment	110
2 companies, 10th NC Regiment	110
1 company, 13th NC Batt'n	115
NC Junior Reserves	140
Additional Reinforcements:
4th, 7th, and 8th Battalions, NCJR - December 25	443
Total:	Approx. 1,371

Casualties

PERSONNEL	DECEMBER 24		DECEMBER 25
	Killed	Wnd.	Killed	Wnd.
Commissioned Officers	-----	2	-----	3
Non-Comm. Officers	-----	3	-----	6
Privates	-----	16	3	17
Seamen	-----	2	-----	8
Marines	-----	-----	-----	1
Total:	-----	23	3	35
Aggregate:				61

Rounds Expended

MAGAZINE	DECEMBER 24	DECEMBER 25^*
No. 1	40	35
No. 2	34	62
No. 3	55	60
No. 4	----------	4
No. 5	105	19
No. 6	106	18
No. 7	112	70
No. 8	25	84
No. 9	59	114
No. 10	6	70
No. 11	----------	60
No. 14	130	122
Total:	672	718
	Aggregate:	1,390

* Approximately 118 rounds expended on the 25th were grape, canister, and shell fired at Federal boats and ground forces. Fort Fisher Contained some 3,600 rounds when the engagement began.

Hoke's Division

Forces Engaged

COMMAND	EFFECTIVES
Kirkland's Brigade:	1,300
17th, 42nd, and 66th NC Regiments
Local units subject to Kirkland's orders:*
4th, 7th, and 8th Battalions NC Junior Reserves	Approx. 800
8th NC Senior Reserves	400
Total:	Approx. 2,500

* Force also includes 2nd Co. I, 10th North Carolina Regiment (Southerland's Battery), the Staunton Hill Artillery (Paris's Battery), and a detachment from the 2nd South Carolina Cavalry. On December 26, after the arrival of a portion of Hagood's Brigade and the remainder of Kirkland's, the arms-bearing force at Sugar Loaf was reported as follows: Connally's Brigade, 600; 2nd SC Cavalry, 350; Paris's Battery, approx. 125; Southerland's Battery, approx. 125; Hagood's Brigade, 720.
Total: approximately 3,398.

Casualties

UNIT	KILLED	WOUNDED	MISSING	TOTAL
17th NC	3	11	1	15
42nd NC	1	2	82¹	85
66th NC	1	1	-----	2
Reserves	-----	-----	224²	224
Artillery	-----	2	-----	2
Aggregate:	5	16	307	328

¹Soldiers of Company A, 42nd North Carolina Regiment, captured at Battery Anderson south of Sugar Loaf.

²Captured by the 117th New York Infantry.

United States Army

Forces Engaged

COMMAND	NUMBER
Army of the James	6,500 present*

* Approximately 2,300 troops from three brigades of the Second Division, XXIV Army Corps (Brig. Gen. Adelbert Ames), were landed on Federal Point December 25, 1864. A small detachment of N. Martin Curtis's brigade saw action as skirmishers in front of Fort Fisher.

Casualties

UNIT	KILLED*	WOUNDED	CAPTURED	TOTAL
142nd NY	-----	11	1	12

* One man drowned in the surf upon re-embarkation. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler reported an additional two men killed.

United States Navy

Forces Engaged

Number of Warships

Casualties

KILLED	WOUNDED	TOTAL
20	63	83

Rounds Expended

PROJECTILES	WEIGHT
20,271	1,275,299 pounds

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).