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On April 11, 1865, at 1 o’clock in the morning, General Joseph E. Johnston learned from an unofficial yet reliable dispatch that General Robert E. Lee...

The American Battlefield Trust's interview with historians Donny Taylor and Derrick Brown discussing the preservation of the Bentonville battlefield...

Mark L. Bradley discusses the Confederate stand - led by William J. Hardee - at Bentonville from March 19-21, 1865, in the final weeks of the U.S...

Historian and author Mark Moore describes the Battle of Bentonville which was fought between March 19-21, 1865. This ferocious battle featured the...

HISTORICAL MAP | Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina on March 19, 1865

A man whose military career spanned more than four decades and three different flags, William Wing Loring was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on...

BATTLE MAP | American Battlefield Trust’s maps of the Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina from March 19-21, 1865

BATTLE MAP | American Battlefield Trust’s map of land preserved at the Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina

Samuel Perry “Powhatan'' Carter was known as a daring leader in the Civil War as the only officer to simultaneously hold a star in both the Navy and...

On February 17, 1864, the Confederate congress passed a new conscription law that expanded the ages for enlistment. In North Carolina, soldiers...