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1 online resource |
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Emerging Civil War series |
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Emerging Civil War series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Mark A. Moore; Prologue; Chapter One: War is All Hell; Chapter Two: Uncle Billy and His Armies; Chapter Three: The Last Rally of the Western Confederates; Chapter Four: The Battle of Averasboro; Chapter Five: Marching to Battle; Chapter Six: Bentonville Opens; Chapter Seven: Johnston's Grand Assault; Chapter Eight: Reinforcements on the Road; Chapter Nine: Sherman Arrives; Chapter Ten: The Armies Skirmish; Chapter Eleven: Reconnaissance in Force; Chapter Twelve: The Battle Ends |
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Driving Tour #1: AverasboroDriving Tour #2: Bentonsville; Appendix A: Sherman's March: The Impact on Georgia and the Carolinas by Ashley Webb; Appendix B: Mower's Attack: Yards Short of Total Victory by Robert M. Dunkerly; Appendix C: The Swamp Lizard: The Military Career of Joseph Anthony Mower by Daniel T. Davis; Appendix D: The Road to Bennett Place by Chris Mackowski; Appendix E: Sherman and Johnston: Foes in War, Friends in Peace by Phillip S. Greenwalt; Appendix F: Preserving the Bentonville Battlefield by Donny Taylor; Order of Battle; Suggested Reading; About the Authors |
| Summary |
Robert E. Lee gave Joseph E. Johnston an impossible task. Federal armies under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had rampaged through Georgia on their ""March to the Sea"" and now were cutting a swath of destruction as they marched north from Savannah through the Carolinas. Locked in a desperate defense of Richmond and Petersburg, there was little Lee could do to stem Sherman's tide-so he turned to Johnston. The one-time hero of Manassas had squabbled for years with Confederate President Jefferson Davis, eventually leading to his removal during the Atlanta Campaign. The disgraced Johnston had f |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Bentonville, Battle of, Bentonville, N.C., 1865.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Military campaigns
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Battlefields
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140213
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North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
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North Carolina
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North Carolina -- Bentonville
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Greenwalt, Phillip S., author
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| ISBN |
9781611212242 |
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1611212243 |
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