. . . "1865-03-19"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1112"^^ . . . . . . . . . "30.0"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . "673"^^ . "239"^^ . . "21900"^^ . . . . . . "Union Military Division of the Mississippi"@en . "221"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "194"^^ . . . . . . . "Johnston County, North Carolina"@en . . . "Col. Charles W. Broadfoot, 1st North Carolina Junior Reserves, describing the attack by the Army of Tennessee"@en . . . . . . "Confederate Army of the South"@en . "Battle of Bentonville"@en . "The Battle of Bentonville (March 19\u201321, 1865) was fought in Bentonville, North Carolina, near the town of Four Oaks, as part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the last battle between the armies of Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. As the right wing of Sherman's army under command of Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard marched toward Goldsborough, the left wing under command of Maj. Gen. H. W. Slocum encountered the entrenched men of Johnston's army. On the first day of the battle, the Confederates attacked the XIV Corps and routed two divisions, but the rest of Sherman's army defended its positions successfully. The next day, as Sherman sent reinforcements to the battlefield and expected Johnston to withdraw, only minor sporadic fighting occurred. On the third day, as skirmishing continued, the division of Maj. Gen. Joseph A. Mower followed a path into the Confederate rear and attacked. The Confederates were able to repulse the attack as Sherman ordered Mower back to connect with his own corps. Johnston elected to withdraw from the battlefield that night. As a result of the overwhelming enemy strength and the heavy casualties his army suffered in the battle, Johnston surrendered to Sherman little more than a month later at Bennett Place, near Durham Station. Coupled with Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender earlier in April, Johnston's surrender represented the effective end of the war."@en . "1527"^^ . . . . . . . . "Battle of Bentonville"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "--03-19"^^ . "... It looked like a picture and at our distance was truly beautiful ... But it was a painful sight to see how close their battle flags were together, regiments being scarcely larger than companies and a division not much larger than a regiment should be."@en . "CSA (Confederacy)"@en . . . . . "1694"^^ . . . . . . . . "Union victory"@en . "60000"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "2606"^^ . . "the American Civil War"@en . . . "The Battle of Bentonville (March 19\u201321, 1865) was fought in Bentonville, North Carolina, near the town of Four Oaks, as part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the last battle between the armies of Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston."@en . . . . . "I can do no more than annoy him. I respectfully suggest that it is no longer a question whether you leave present position; you have only to decide where to meet Sherman. I will be near him."@en . . . . "right"@en . . "Joseph Johnston to Robert E. Lee"@en . . . . . . . . "United States"@en . .