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Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville. Savas Woodbury Publishers, 1996. ISBN 978-1882810024. Bradley, Mark L. This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0807825655. Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Following the end of the Civil War, North Carolina was part of the Second Military District. [18] [19] Major General John M. Schofield was the military leader in charge of North Carolina for roughly a month, in which he implemented a temporary recovery to provide aid to the people of North Carolina. [20]
The History Center aims to "rewrite the narrative" by truthfully exploring how the North Carolina Homefront reacted to and participated in the Civil War with an $87 million History Center built on ...
A considerable military infrastructure sprung up in Columbia. The state arsenal was located in Columbia, along with the state military academy. The grounds of the University of South Carolina were converted into a military hospital, since its role as an educational institution had been made moot after its entire student body volunteered for the ...
Columbia, the capital city of South Carolina, was an important political and supply center for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Much of the town was destroyed during occupation by Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman during the Carolinas Campaign in the last months of the war. Sherman was accused of ...
Richard Heron Anderson (October 7, 1821 – June 26, 1879) was a career U.S. Army officer, fighting with distinction in the Mexican–American War.He also served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, fighting in the Eastern Theater of the conflict and most notably during the 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
Journal of Southern History 53 (Feb 1987): 37–62. online at JSTOR; Beeby, James M. Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890–1901 (UP of Mississippi, 2008). 280 pp. Billings Dwight. Planters and the Making of a "New South": Class, Politics, and Development in North Carolina, 1865–1900. 1979.
Clinton turned over British operations in the South to Lord Cornwallis. The Continental Congress dispatched General Horatio Gates, the victor of Saratoga, to the South with a new army, but Gates promptly suffered one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history at the Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780. Cornwallis prepared to invade North ...