The battle of Fort Fisher caused a great deal of casualties for both sides; the Union Army and Navy suffered 199 killed, 811 wounded, and 47 missing. Confederate casualties were also heavy; 583 of the garrison killed or wounded, and the remainder, around 2,000 men, surrendered. What also added to the woes happened the following day. Someone set off the fort's massive powder magazine, killing an additional 200 Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners. Both sides blamed the other for the explosion. An investigation found that the explosion was not deliberate but the act of an unknown person through an act of carelessness with a lantern.

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