Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te whakatutukitanga nui rawa atu a Terry o te pakanga i te wa i whakanohoia ai ia hei rangatira mo te Fort Fisher Expeditionary Corps. I hinga a Benjamin Butler i te haerenga ki Fort Fisher i te mutunga o te tau 1864. Kua riro a Terry i te whakawhirinaki a General Ulysses S. Grant a ko ia inaianei te rangatira o nga ope whenua i roto i te haerenga tuarua ki te kaha. Kaore i rite ki a Butler, i mahi pai a Terry me te Navy i raro i te whakahau a David D. Porter. I te 13 o Hanuere 1865, i tukuna e Terry tetahi wehenga o nga United States Colored Troops ki te pupuri i nga ope o te Rōpū i raro i a Braxton Bragg ki te raki o Fort Fisher. I tukuna e ia tana wehenga tuarua i raro i a Adelbert Ames ki te taha raki o te pa. Whai muri i te whawhai a-ringa-ki-ringa, i whakahaerehia e nga hoia o te Uniana te kaha. Mo tana wāhi i roto i te
I te Pakanga o Fort Fisher, i whakatairangahia a Terry ki te rangatira nui o nga kaitautoko me te rangatira rangatira i roto i te ope taua. I tae mai nga whakapakari i te marama o Hui-tanguru ka tae mai a John M. Schofield ki te whakahaere i te pakanga ki a Wilmington, North Carolina. Whai muri i te hinganga o Wilmington, ka whakaingoatia te Fort Fisher Expeditionary Corps ki te X Corps, me Terry e noho ana i te whakahau, ka uru ki nga waahanga whakamutunga o te Campaign Carolinas. I te nuinga o te wā e whakaarotia ana ko ia tētahi o ngā hōia tino kaha, kāore anō kia whakangungu hōia i mua, i puta mai i te pakanga.