Battle of Bentonville

Johnston's Confederates checked Sherman's Union army, March 19-21, 1865. Historic site 2½ Mi. E.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 701 and Harper House Road (County Route 1008), on the left when traveling south on U.S. 701.

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Honoring the Dead of the Battle of Bentonville

“Time may teach us to forgive, but it can never make us forget.”

- Confederate Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton, memorial address at Bentonville, March 20, 1895.

By the evening of March 22, 1865 both the Union and Confederate armies had vacated ...

North Carolinians at the Battle of Bentonville

In memory

of the

North Carolinians

who

fought and died

in the

Battle of Bentonville

March 19-21, 1865

Marker is at the intersection of Mill Creek Church Road and Harper House Road, on the left when traveling north on Mill Creek Church Road.

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Battle of Bentonville

“In suffering condition”

(Preface):The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia ...

The Battle of Bentonville

March 19, 20, and 21, 1865

At Bentonville, General William T. Sherman's Union Army, advancing from Fayetteville toward Goldsboro, met and battled the Confederate Army of General Joseph E. Johnston. General Robert E. Lee had directed the Confederates to make a ...