Fort Fisher North Carolina Historic 3x5 Feet Hemp Embroidered Flag Brass Grommets Gift BoxedFort Fisher North Carolina Historic 3x5 Feet Hemp Embroidered Flag Brass Grommets Gift Boxed Ft Fisher NC Until the last few months of the WBTS Fort Fisher kept North Carolina's port of Wilmington open to blockade runners supplying necessary goods to Confederate armies inland. By 1865, the supply line through Wilmington was the last remaining supply route open to Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. When Ft. Fisher fell after a massive U. S.