Kammala wannan jumla: Babban nasarar da Terry ya samu a yakin ya zo ne lokacin da aka sanya shi a matsayin kwamandan rundunar Fort Fisher Expeditionary Corps. Benjamin Butler ya riga ya kasa a wani bincike a kan Fort Fisher a karshen 1864. Terry ya sami amincewa da Janar Ulysses S. Grant kuma yanzu ya zama kwamandan sojojin kasa a cikin tafiya ta biyu a kan sansanin. Ba kamar Butler ba, Terry ya yi aiki sosai tare da Navy a karkashin umurnin David D. Porter. A ranar 13 ga Janairu, 1865, Terry ya aika da wani rukuni na Amurka Colored Sojoji don dakatar da sojojin Confederate karkashin Braxton Bragg zuwa arewacin Fort Fisher. Ya aika da sauran rundunarsa a karkashin Adelbert Ames a arewacin sansanin. Bayan da aka yi yaƙi da hannu, dakarun Tarayyar sun mallaki sansanin. Domin rawar da ya taka a
Yaƙin Fort Fisher, Terry ya ci gaba da zama babban janar na masu sa kai da kuma janar janar a cikin sojojin dakarun. Ƙarin ƙarfafawa ya isa a watan Fabrairun kuma John M. Schofield ya isa ya dauki jagorancin yakin da aka yi a kan Wilmington, North Carolina. Bayan faduwar Wilmington, an sake sunan Fort Fisher Expeditionary Corps zuwa X Corps, tare da Terry ya kasance a cikin umurnin, kuma ya shiga cikin matakai na karshe na Kamfen na Carolinas. Gabaɗaya ana ɗaukarsa ɗaya daga cikin janar-janar mafi ƙwarewa ba tare da horar da sojoji na baya ba don fitowa daga yaƙin.