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.

From March 19-21, 1865, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and what remained of the Confederate army attacked and were defeated by Union General William T. Sherman’s army in the Battle of Bentonville, the last large-scale battle of the Civil War.

The Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, lasted from March 19–21, 1865, at the very end of the Civil War. It took place two and a half weeks before Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia, and three and half weeks before Joseph E. Johnston surrendered at …

Jan 6, 2025 · The Battle of Bentonville, fought from March 19 through March 21, 1865, near Bentonville, North Carolina, was the final battle of Major General William T. Sherman's Carolinas Campaign.

The Battle of Bentonville, fought March 19-21, 1865, was the last full-scale action of the Civil War in which a Confederate army was able to mount a tactical offensive.

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

Occurring as it did "in the midst of the collapse of the Confederacy," the Battle of Bentonville was quickly overshadowed as the war drew to a close. As the battle and its history fell from public awareness, peace returned to the rolling farms and forests around the hamlet of Bentonville.

Nov 13, 2009 · On March 19, 1865, at the Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, Confederate General Joseph Johnston makes a desperate attempt to stop Union General William T. Sherman’s drive through the ...

On April 18, Johnston signed an armistice with Sherman at the Bennett House, and on April 26, formally surrendered his army. This page describes the Battle of Bentonville, a Union victory that was fought in late March 1865 between the forces of William T. Sherman and Joseph E....

On March 19, 1865, Confederate forces led by General Joseph Johnston met William Tecumseh Sherman's Federal troops at Bentonville, North Carolina, for the last major battle of the Civil War.