Table of Data Points

Tag : Combat

1865-03-25Fort Stedman

The Union Army fortification in the siege lines around Petersburg, Virginia, was attacked in a pre-dawn Confederate assault by troops led by Gen John Gordon

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1865-03-191865-03-21Bentonsville

The last major battle to occur between the armies of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.

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1865-03-16Black River

Part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War, was a prelude to the climactic Battle of Bentonville, which began three days later.

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1865-03-10Blues Farm

Involving about 4,500 men, it pitted mounted Confederate cavalry against dismounted Union cavalry. It was one of the last all-cavalry battles of the Civil War.

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1865-03-071865-03-10Wilcox's Bridge

Having stopped General Cox's union troops near Kingston forces under general Braxton Bragg attempt to outflank the Union line. Cox is reinforced and the Confederate attack failed. Bragg withdrew and was unable to prevent the fall of Kinston.

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1865-03-06Natural Bridge

A small band of Confederate troops and volunteers, mostly composed of teenagers from the nearby Florida Military and Collegiate Institute that would later become Florida State University, and the elderly, protected by breastworks, prevented Union forc...

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1865-03-02Waynesboro

The final battle for Confederate Gen Jubal Early, whose force was destroyed

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1865-02-17Columbia Burns

As Confederate cavalry retreats Columbia surrenders to Sherman. Union forces are overwhelmed by liberated Federal prisoners and emancipated African Americans. During the night's drunken revelry, fires break out in the city and much of it burns.

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1865-02-111865-02-22Battle of Wilmington

The Battle of Wilmington closed the last major port of the Confederate States on the Atlantic coast. Wilmington had served as a major port for blockade-runners, carrying tobacco, cotton, and other goods to places such as Britain, the Bahamas, and Bermuda.

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1865-02-051865-02-07Rowanty Creek

The Union plan was to send Gen David Mc Gregg's cavalry out to the Boydton Plank Road to destroy as many Confederate supply wagons as they could find while the V Corps and II Corps provided support and kept the Confederates occupied to the north and east

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