✦ 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.

On the map Contemporaries

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 XIV Corps (Union Army) Army of the Tennessee 14th Ohio Infantry Regiment 21st Ohio Infantry Regiment 33rd Ohio Infantry Regiment
Army of Tennessee Army of the South 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Confederate) 1st Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion

Related events 1 degree away • 2 degrees away

 
Second Battle of Fort Fisher
 
Battle of Bentonville
 
Battle of Five Forks

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