Bentonville Anti-Horse Thief Society

Originally a vigilante group, the Anti-Horse Thief Society was formed here in March 1853 by area landowners to recover stolen horses and prosecute the thieves. Horse theft was a serious offense in the ante-bellum era. Trustees nominated a captain and ...

National Historic Landmark -Bentonville Battlefield

National Historic Landmark -Bentonville Battlefield

The Battle of Bentonville, where two military titans of the Civil War--Gens. William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston--faced each other for the final time in a major battle, was the last occasion on which a ...

Village of Bentonville

Wounded and Abandoned

(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 ...

Bentonville

In 1865, a local market

center for naval stores

(tar, pitch & turpentine).

Bentonville gives name

to the battle fought

nearby, March 19-21, 1865.

Confederates concen-

trated here the day

before the battle. As

they retreated on

March 22, they burned

all stocks of naval

stores. Union forces

occupied the village,

March 22-24.

Marker is ...

Village of Bentonville

You are looking at the village of Bentonville. This small hamlet bore the name of the largest battle ever fought in North Carolina. Named after local resident John Benton, the hamlet had a post office as early as 1849. In ...

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.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bentonville

This memorial marks the battlefield of Bentonville where, on March 19-21, 1865, General Joseph E. Johnston, with about 15,000 Confederate troops, principally from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, checked the advance of Major-General W.T. Sherman’s army ...

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.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bentonville Battlefield Driving Tour

In the forests and fields around the North Carolina village of Bentonville, the armies of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and Union Gen. William T. Sherman fought their last major engagement of the Civil War on March 19-21, 1865. Sherman ...