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Fort Fisher State Historic Site and Battlefield and the Friends of Fort Fisher host the commemoration of the Battle of Fort Fisher on January 17 and 18, 2015. The two-day observance leads North Carolina�s official 2015 commemoration of the momentous events that brought the Civil War to an end 150 years ago. Fort Fisher�s program will focus on the struggle to capture and defend the Confederacy�s largest fortification and �Gibraltar of the South� during the attack on January 15, 1865.