Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Akasin haka, toshewar Wilmington ya kasance na al'ada, kuma shine mafi yawan muhawara game da tasirin toshewar. Bayan tsakiyar watan Yulin 1863, lokacin da aka rufe Charleston da yawa, yawancin cinikayya tsakanin Confederacy da arewacin Turai an gudanar da su ta hanyar Wilmington. Tashar jiragen ruwa ta ci gaba da kasancewa ta farko har zuwa kusa da ƙarshen Tawaye, lokacin da Fort Fisher
, a bakin kogin Cape Fear, sojojin Tarayyar sun kama shi a watan Janairun 1865.