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The Battle of Columbus, Georgia (April 16, 1865), was the last conflict in the Union campaign through Alabama and Georgia, known as Wilson's Raid, in the final full month of the American Civil War. Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson had been ordered to destroy the city of Columbus as a major Confederate manufacturing center.
Wilson's Raid was a cavalry operation through Alabama and Georgia in March–April 1865, late in the American Civil War. U.S. Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson led his U.S. Cavalry Corps to destroy Confederate manufacturing facilities and was opposed unsuccessfully by a much smaller force under Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The Battle of Columbus may refer to: The Battle of Columbus (1865) , the last major land battle in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, April 16, 1865 The Battle of Columbus (1916) , a conflict between Pancho Villa and the U.S. Cavalry occurring in the Southwest U.S.
The Five Forks Campaign and the Fall of Petersburg: March 29 - April 2, 1865. El Dorado Hills, California: Savas Beatie, 2014. ISBN 978-1-611212-18-1. Bearss, Edwin C. Battle of the Weldon Railroad. no publisher listed, no date. Bearss, Edwin C. with Bryce A. Suderow. The Petersburg Campaign: The Eastern Front Battles, June - August 1864. El ...
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Cameron County, May 12-13, 1865. "The last battle of the Civil War was won in Texas by the Confederates." The only mention in this book of the Columbus, Georgia affair, on page 436, is that "…Wilson then pushed east to Columbus, Georgia, another major center of Confederate industry, and occupied it on April 16."
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