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Bentonville Battlefield, also known as the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site, is an American Civil War battlefield in Johnston County, North Carolina. It was the site of the 1865 battle of Bentonville , fought in the waning days of the Civil War.
Battles of Longstreet's Tidewater Campaign of the American Civil War (4 P) Pages in category "Battles of the American Civil War in North Carolina" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
The Battle of Bentonville (March 19–21, 1865) was fought in Johnston County, North Carolina, near the village of Bentonville, as part of the Western Theater of the American Civil War. It was the last battle between the western field armies of William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston .
In addition, the following Civil War monuments are on the Capitol grounds: A statue of Confederate Colonel Zebulon Baird Vance, Governor during the Civil War, 1862–1865. Monument to Civil War Captain and North Carolina legislator Samuel A'Court Ashe (1940), two plaques on a large granite block. [13]
Stoneman's raid in 1865, also called Stoneman's last raid, [1] was a military campaign in the Upper South during the American Civil War, by Union cavalry troops led by General George Stoneman, in the region of eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina and southwestern Virginia.
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville. Savas Woodbury Publishers, 1996. ISBN 978-1882810024. Bradley, Mark L. This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0807825655. Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
The Battle of Averasborough or the Battle of Averasboro, fought March 16, 1865, in Harnett and Cumberland counties, North Carolina, as part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War, was a prelude to the climactic Battle of Bentonville, which began three days later.