The Carolinas campaign (January 1 – April 26, 1865), also known as the campaign of the Carolinas, was the final campaign conducted by the Union Army against...
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Sherman's March to the Sea (redirect from Savannah Campaign)
north for the Carolinas campaign. The portion of this march through South Carolina was even more destructive than the Savannah campaign, since Sherman...
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The following units and commanders fought in the Carolinas campaign of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of...
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The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Carolinas campaign of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately...
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Henry Warner Slocum (section Carolinas Campaign)
of Savannah. In the Carolinas campaign, Slocum's army saw victories in the battles of Averasborough and Bentonville, North Carolina. The "March to the...
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British Legion (American Revolutionary War) (category South Carolina in the American Revolution)
Cornwallis shifted his communications to the Chesapeake and abandoned the Carolinas for Virginia, the British Legion cavalry under Tarleton raided ahead of...
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Braxton Bragg and John Bell Hood. He served in the Atlanta Campaign of 1864 and the Carolinas Campaign of 1865, where he surrendered with General Joseph E....
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The order of battle for the Carolinas campaign includes: Carolinas campaign order of battle: Confederate Carolinas campaign order of battle: Union This...
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Battle of Averasborough (category Campaign of the Carolinas)
16, 1865, in Harnett and Cumberland counties, North Carolina, as part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War, was a prelude to the climactic...
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Army of the Tennessee (category South Carolina in the American Civil War)
Chattanooga Campaign, through the Relief of Knoxville, the Meridian Campaign, the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea, the Carolinas Campaign, and to the...
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helped defend Charleston from enemy attack. Robertson served in the Carolinas Campaign and surrendered with Gen. Johnston. After the war, Robertson moved...
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Army of Georgia (category South Carolina in the American Civil War)
William T. Sherman's Army Group during the March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign. Although the Army of Georgia name was soon applied to this force...
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Joseph E. Johnston (section Peninsula Campaign)
in the Atlanta Campaign. In the war's final days, Johnston was returned to command of the few remaining forces in the Carolinas Campaign. U.S. Army generals...
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Western theater of the American Civil War (redirect from Mississippi campaign)
invaded the Carolinas. Operations in the Western Theater concluded with the surrender of Southern forces to the Union armies in North Carolina and Florida...
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Patton, who "spent a long vacation studying Sherman's campaigns on the ground in Georgia and the Carolinas, with the aid of [Liddell Hart's] book" and later...
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during his March to the Sea. Williams commanded it from then until the Carolinas Campaign (Slocum having been promoted to army command in the meantime). It...
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Tennessee, December 15–16, 1864. Carolinas Campaign, February to April 1865. Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, March 19–21, 1865. The remnants of...
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Jacob D. Cox. The corps ultimately joined Sherman's army in the Carolinas Campaign, and was disbanded in August 1865. * Cox commanded briefly May 26–28...
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Braxton Bragg (category People from Warrenton, North Carolina)
the field as a corps commander near the war's end during the Campaign of the Carolinas. Bragg is generally considered among the worst generals of the...
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Church, Battle of Jonesborough, Sherman's March to the Sea, and the Carolinas campaign in the Western Theater. Known as the "Christian General" because he...
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Battle of Bentonville (redirect from Bentonville, North Carolina)
through the Carolinas. During the late winter and early spring of 1865, Sherman's army cut a swath of destruction through South Carolina. On March 8,...
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North Carolina, taking part in the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, the capture of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, North Carolina, and the Carolinas Campaign. Organized...
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Siege of Fort Pulaski, Bermuda Hundred Campaign, Battle of Cold Harbor, Siege of Petersburg, and the Carolinas Campaign. Following this organization's muster-in...
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Joseph Wheeler (section Georgia and the Carolinas)
stop Sherman in the 1865 Carolinas Campaign. He defeated a U.S. cavalry force under Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick in South Carolina at the Battle of Aiken...
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Army of Tennessee (category 1865 disestablishments in North Carolina)
transferred to the Carolinas, where it joined other Confederate forces fighting against Sherman's troops marching through the Carolinas. Stewart commanded...
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of another Union offensive in 1865, during Union General Sherman's Carolinas Campaign. After the battles of Bentonville and Wyse Fork, Sherman's forces...
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Army of the Ohio (category South Carolina in the American Civil War)
William T. Sherman's army and participated in the final stages of the Carolinas Campaign. With the close of the war, the troops were mustered out of military...
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William Wing Loring (category People from Wilmington, North Carolina)
participate in the Carolinas Campaign, seeing action at the Battle of Bentonville before being surrendered by Johnston at Durham, North Carolina a month later...
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In the spring of 1865, the regiment was sent to take part in the Carolinas Campaign, fighting at the Battle of Kinston and the Battle of Bentonville....
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through South Carolina at the beginning of the Carolinas Campaign. Saalmann was eventually able to reconnect with the brigade in North Carolina, probably...
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