Ragowar ayyukan a gabar tekun Arewacin Carolina sun fara ne a ƙarshen 1864, tare da Benjamin Butler da David D. Porter na ƙoƙarin da aka yi na kama Fort Fisher, wanda ke kula da tashar jiragen ruwa na Wilmington. Sojojin Union a Yaƙin na biyu na Fort Fisher
, wanda Alfred H. Terry, Adelbert Ames, da Porter suka jagoranci, a watan Janairun 1865, sun yi nasara wajen kayar da Janar Braxton Bragg, kuma Wilmington ya fadi a watan Fabrairu. A wannan lokacin, sojojin Maj. Janar William T. Sherman na Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Amurka suna tafiya zuwa cikin Carolina, inda daga bisani suka tilasta wa rundunar soja mafi girma ta Confederate, karkashin jagorancin Joseph E. Johnston, a ranar 26 ga Afrilu, 1865.