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Marks the site of the largest Civil War battle in North Carolina, which took place March 19-21, 1865, where the Confederates took another thrashing by General William Sherman in their waning days of the war.
Bentonville Battlefield, also known as the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site, is an American Civil War battlefield in Johnston County, North Carolina. It was the site of the 1865 battle of Bentonville, fought in the waning days of the Civil War. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1996.
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Local history museum.
Residence turned museum of General William Lee, regarded as the father of the US Airborne.
This battlefield site marks where Confederate Lt. General Hardee was sent to check the advancing Union forces of General Sherman in March of 1865 prior to the decisive Battle of Bentonville that happened days later. Just to the south of the museum is the Chicora Cemetery where casualties of the battle lie.