Bentonville The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston

Hardcover with dustjacket. First edition, 1st printing. Very light bumping to spine extremeties of boards. Else binding very clean. DJ spine somewhat sunned. Else DJ clean. ; 9.55 X 6.43 X 1.25 inches; 336 pages

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The battle of Bentonville, the only major Civil War battle fought in North Carolina, was the Confederacy's last attempt to stop the devastating march of William Tecumseh Sherman's army north through the Carolinas. Despite their numerical disadvantage, General Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate forces successfully ambushed one wing of Sherman's army on March 19, 1865 but were soon repulsed. For the Confederates, it was a heroic but futile effort to delay the inevitable: within a month, both Richmond and Raleigh had fallen, and Lee had surrendered.

Nathaniel Hughes offers a full-length tactical study of the battle of Bentonville, the only major Civil War battle fought in North Carolina and the Confederacy's last attempt to stop the devastating march of Sherman's army north through the Carolinas. In careful detail, Hughes lays out Confederate and Union troop movements and places the engagement within the larger military framework of the last months of the war. Analyzing the reasons for the initial success and eventual failure of General Joseph E. Johnston's offensive, Hughes maintains that Sherman showed great restraint by remaining committed to the larger goal of reaching Goldsboro rather than stopping to pursue or destroy the defeated Confederates.

Product Info

ISBN: 0807822817

ISBN-13: 9780807822814

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

Year: 1996

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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