✦ History

Part of American Civil War

Battle of Bentonville

March 19–21, 1865 · Bentonville, North Carolina

Result Union victory

Battle of 19 March 1865: overwhelming Union strength and heavy Confederate casualties led Johnston to surrender to Sherman little more than a month later at Bennett Place, near Durham Station. Coupled with Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender on 9 April, Johnston's surrender represented the effective end of the war.

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Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
William Tecumseh Sherman
Joseph E. Johnston Braxton Bragg military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
60,00016,127, 60,000
Casualties
1,646
Killed
139191
Wounded
1,112794, 1,168
Missing
170200, 287
Strength
16,89530,000
Casualties
3,092
Killed
195239
Wounded
1,3131,694
Missing
6101,600, 673

Units

Army of Georgia Henry W. Slocum (Left Wing) Henry W. Slocum Major general · 1864–1865 XIV Corps (Union Army) Jefferson C. Davis Jefferson C. Davis Major general · 1864–1865 14th Ohio Infantry Regiment XX Corps (Union Army) Alpheus S. Williams Alpheus S. Williams Major general · 1864–1865 3rd Cavalry Division (Military Division of the Mississippi) Judson Kilpatrick Judson Kilpatrick Brigadier general Army of the Tennessee Oliver O. Howard (Right Wing) Oliver O. Howard Major general · 1864–1865 XV Corps (Union Army) John A. Logan John A. Logan Major general · 1865 XVII Corps (Union Army) Francis P. Blair Jr.; present but did not take an active part in the fighting Francis P. Blair Jr. Major general · 1864–1865
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21st Ohio Infantry Regiment 33rd Ohio Infantry Regiment
Army of Tennessee Alexander P. Stewart temporarily commanded the Army of Tennessee Joseph E. Johnston General · 1865 First Corps, Army of Tennessee Cheatham's Corps, commanded by William B. Bate William B. Bate Major general · 1865 Second Corps, Army of Tennessee Lee's Corps, commanded by Daniel Harvey Hill (temporary command) Daniel Harvey Hill Lieutenant general · 1865 Third Corps, Army of Tennessee Stewart's Corps, commanded by William W. Loring (ill March 20, then Edward C. Walthall) William W. Loring Major general · 1865 Edward C. Walthall Major general · 1865 Army of the South Strength c. 21,900 · Joseph E. Johnston Joseph E. Johnston General · 1865 Cavalry Command, Army of the South Wade Hampton III Wade Hampton III Lieutenant general · 1865 Wheeler's Cavalry Corps Joseph Wheeler Joseph Wheeler Major general · 1862–1865 Department of North Carolina Braxton Bragg Braxton Bragg General · 1865
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Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida William J. Hardee P. G. T. Beauregard General William J. Hardee Lieutenant general · 1864–1865 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Confederate) 1st Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion

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