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Allen House) EK Rocky Ford Homestead Morrisville Cary 94 A 26 RE 16 R C 109 87 501 T T S Statesville Lexington A Phelps Lake M RALEIGH (See Inset) Pea N E 54 A 25 E Zebulon B. R Pocosin HI R 55 Island Vance Morganton Hickory D 301 Lakes LA 74 E E NWR A Birthplace Carson House 70 P Wilson 43 R P 64 NWR 64 R P 70 Rowan County 64 I A ALLIGA 40 21 Courthouse I Jordan Confederate Military V Marion Newton V Lake E Hall House Garner Hospital No. 2 Alligator ASHEVILLE N.C. Transportation Museum E Clayton 95 Falkland R 32 Asheboro R Lake Smith- 1 y 64 C.S.Military Salisbury 49 70 a McDowell (See Inset) Old Fort Lake w Prison 301 264 e r 276 House (Swannanoa Gap) Norman a t 40 264 Washington W 12 Great Smoky National Park Harris 401 795 Farmville (Multiple Sites) stal 16 40 coa Lake Mitchener (May Museum) Greenville 33 Inter 321 Station 74A 29 BUS 19 70 903 221 258 Lake Mattamuskeet NWR 74 220 Smithfield Governor Charles B. Scuffleton Chimney Rock Village Kannapolis 85 210 Bridge Ayden Black P Historic Lincolnton Grimsley Jack A 23 (Hickory Nut Gorge) Sanford Church (Hancock & M Bath 77 Hastings Rose Hill L I U.S. Line C O 264 276 74A of March House 70 Churches) R CHEROHALA 280 House in the I V SKYWAY 13 123 43 E R Pisgah National Forest 26 Concord Horseshoe 11 Swanquarter 64 52 421 Hannah’s 273 Lowesville D HANRAH NWR Rutherfordton EV Goldsboro Hookerton AN 109 C.S. Line R IL Creek RD St. John’s Allison-Deaver 24 AC 73 27 ET Wayne County Museum 58 17 of March R Church House Mt Pleasant A Village of 129 29 501 87 C 441 74B K Grifton 118 301 R Bentonville 15 D Battle of Nantahala National Forest Columbus 701 D PER HOUSE R General Benjamin F. Butler (Polk County 27 49 27 HAR Goldsboro Bridge 23 Courthouse) 74 210 Dunn Route to Merging of the Armies 129 74 Reed Bentonville 581 Brevard 82 Bentonville Kinston 19 221 Gold Mine 13 176 85 Averasboro Battlefield (See Inset) Lighthouse Green River 55 117 PAM LICO SOUND Battlefield Museum D REBEL 25 RD Plantation R Departing H HARLOTTE T Averasboro re 19B 24 R 111 ho 64 E Lantern recovered To as Old Bluff B e 601 401 L 55 ll Ferr l S 276 87 U 12 na Church C Engagement Wyse Fork from the USS , io K at S y N I 55 s 64 Lake S Mount at Whitehall 306 Graveyard of the ra 74 485 82 13 Union Attack tte 178 Wylie D Olive 70 a R Atlantic Museum. H N at Southwest Creek pe N 701 a 74 64 U C 210 D New Bern Courtesy NOAA 40 295 421 58 (See Inset) y Market House and square in Fayetteville, late 19th century. Toll Ferr Ocracoke FAYETTEVILLE N Lighthouse Courtesy State Archive (See Inset) 11 258 E Indian Chuttahsotee’s rifle, Thomas’s Legion President U 77 James K. Polk New Bern S Courtesy Macon County Historical Museum 24 Battlefield E 211 401 Cedar 11 41 R Monroe 501 Warsaw I Island 74 301 V E R NWR 15 Kenansville National Free Ferry “The importance of the point [Hatteras] Waxhaw 75 87 Forest 12 Ferry Rockingham Confederate “The mountains of Wagram States Armory cannot be overrated. … From there the whole 200 would be the center of the Confederacy; 52 Murdoch 117 Havelock coast of and North Carolina … 1 74 Morrison Wilson’s re Gun Factory 58 101 o we shall then have one of the most prosper- Store 17 h is within our reach. … From it offensive oper- Laurel Hill 70 Newport s ( a Church W 19W Laurel Hill Barracks Se ous countries in the world. It will become l ations may be made upon the whole coast 95 i Jacksonville Carolina 70 a RD l RE WI L m City on LD Laurinburg Cushing’s New River Raid ti O i connected with every part of the South U a of North Carolina … extending many miles n Morehead City N g t M u t o by railroad. 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(1 mile) Mount Stoneman led his Hillsborough Historic Stagville Roanoke Canal Burlington Hardee’s Louisburg Murfreesboro Moyock Knotts Island Airy command into Virginia, STONEMAN’S RAID CAMPAIGN Museum Battle of RAIDS AGAINST THE LIFELINE 8 70 Column West Point College (Roberts-Vaughn House) 85 South Mills Currituck County CH April 2 – 10. 40 85 Duke 158 158 74 The Last Homestead 1 Weldon Maple Holt’s Mill Encampment 221 n March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George A n December 21, 1864, Union Gen. William Winton Albemarle & orth Carolina’s factories supplied Con­ Elizabethton 601 Jackson Danbury Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Ruffin Mills Durham’s Station T. Sherman completed his “March to the (Battle of Boone’s Mill) Elizabeth City Chesapeake Canal federate armies with shoes, clothing, 21 268 O O Indiantown N Leigh Farm Brassfield Creek Bridge 321 421 Tennessee into western North Carolina Station Sea” and captured Savannah, . He Historic Halifax Wingfield weapons, and other necessities during the Siloam 8 540 401 CSS Albemarle 17 Elkin 52 and southwestern Virginia to disrupt the 40 soon headed north through the Carolinas, 301 war. In addition, ships loaded with Euro- Jonesborough 13 Hertford Germanton Confederate supply line by destroying sections 70 planning ultimately to link his army with (USCT Monument) pean goods ran the of the Banner Elk Richmond Hill 258 158 Rockford of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, the 501 440 those that Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Southern coastline to such ports as Wilm- Boone 268 Jonesville 95 Point Harbor 421 Bond School North Carolina Railroad, and the Piedmont Morrisville Grant accompanied in Virginia. ington, North Carolina, guarded by Fort House A Edenton Cranberry (Multiple Sites) Iron Mine Railroad. He also sought to liberate Union Sherman marched into 17 Roanoke Island Fisher. A network of rail lines, especially Yadkinville Winston- 64 Fort Festival Park Wilkesboro 321 421 Salem prisoners-of-war held in Salisbury and hoped to on February 1, 1865. Confederate Gen. Rocky Mount Branch the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad and Blalock 1 Plymouth deprive the Confederate armies of supplies, cut Clayton 95 Joseph E. Johnston concentrated his forces 64 the Petersburg Railroad (also called the Family Patterson 70 (Multiple Sites) 64 Mill Windsor 601 off avenues of retreat, and encourage Unionists in central North Carolina. Sherman divided Princeville Weldon Railroad), transported supplies to Raiding Tarboro Crossroads Huntsville 301 64 in western and central North Carolina. 401 Mitchener his army into left and right wings and entered (Multiple Sites) Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army in Virginia. 158 40 Station Somerset 21 Williamston 40 Stoneman struck at Boone on March 28, the Tar Heel State early in March. Union Wilson Pettigrew Place After Federal forces occupied most 213 77 Confederate (Asa Biggs House) Burnsville 19E 64 Taylorsville divided his force, reunited it at Jonesville, Smithfield Gen. John M. Schofield’s troops, en route Military State Park of North Carolina’s barrier islands and 221 Lenoir 285 Falkland (John McElroy House) and raided Virginia, April 2–10. On April 12, to Goldsboro from Wilmington, repulsed Hospital No. 2 coastline in 1862, they attacked the state’s 64 (St. James Church) U.S. Line Hastings Washington 213 Fort 64 70 To Mars Hill the Federals occupied Salisbury and burned of March House Confederate Gen. ’s forces at 301 264 (Multiple Sites) railroads, factories, and naval facilities. In 18 Dobbs Mocksville Kinston College Hannah’s Creek Farmville Marshall 70 64 601 the already abandoned prison, as well as General William T. Sherman 421 Wyse Fork near Kinston on March 8–10. Greenville December 1862, Union Gen. John G. Foster 26 Rocky Ford 16 C.S. Line Village of public buildings, industrial structures, and 501 Sherman occupied Fayetteville the next Grimsley 258 Ayden marched from New Bern to Goldsboro Vance Engagement Statesville Bentonville 25 Carson Hickory 15 301 of March Church Black Birthplace House supply depots. Stoneman moved west the Merging of day, then marched north. On March 16, Con- and burned the Wilmington and Weldon 70 Dunn Route to 13 Scuffleton Jack Historic Morganton 70 the Armies Goldsboro next day, dividing his command again in Averasboro Bentonville federate Gen. William J. Hardee delayed Sher- (Multiple Sites) Bridge Bath Railroad bridge. Union Gen. Edward E. 40 21 Bentonville 17 Battlefield Museum 117 Smith- Marion the face of limited resistance. Other than a man’s left wing near Averasboro. Johnston (N Potter, raiding from New Bern in July Salisbury Battlefield or Hookerton ASHEVILLE th C McDowell 64 fight at Swannanoa Gap, Stoneman and his Civil War Trails Site Departing attacked Sherman three days later at Benton- ar St. John’s 1863, destroyed mills, trains, and bridges, (Multiple Sites) Old Bluff ol House Old Fort ina Church Averasboro RR) Kinston Church 40 (Swannanoa Gap) cavalrymen encountered only bushwhackers 1 ville, where the Confederates at first routed including the Wilmington and Weldon State Historic Site 117 (Multiple Sites) 9 52 401 16 and isolated groups of Confederate soldiers. 13 the lead Federal division. The two Union wings General John G. Foster Railroad bridge at Rocky Mount. The 74A 221 321 Wyse Fork 19 Part of Stoneman’s force approached Carolinas Campaign Driving Route 40 then merged and almost severed Johnston’s Confederates quickly restored rail service Chimney Rock Village 295 Engagement 70 New Bern 85 at Whitehall Union Attack (Hickory Nut Gorge) Lincolnton Asheville on April 23, negotiated a truce, Information or Welcome Center AV line of retreat on March 21. He withdrew Mount at Southwest Creek (Multiple Sites) after each raid. In October 1864, U.S. 23 Olive 276 77 Stoneman’s Raid and rode through the streets on April 26, (Multiple Sites) toward Smithfield that night, and Sherman Navy Lt. William B. Cushing destroyed the 74 74A 258 Civil War Trails Site 401 26 while Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston reached Goldsboro and Schofield on March 23. Warsaw ironclad CSS Albemarle at Plymouth, in Allison-Deaver 64 273 Rutherfordton Lowesville surrendered to Union Gen. William T. 301 Sherman advanced toward Raleigh on Kenansville one of several attacks on river defenses. House Other Civil War Trails Site 15 17 70 Columbus 74B 29 Sherman near Durham. Two days later, some April 10, while Johnston retreated to Greens- Confederate By August 1864, Wilmington was the ( Murdoch W (Polk County State Historic Site Wagram States Armory Hendersonville 27 i 49 of Stoneman’s men returned to Asheville boro. Learning of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s April l last major Confederate seaport open to Courthouse) 74 Morrison 117 m Jacksonville Newport Civil War Trails Site 501 i n (Cushing’s New to loot. Other elements either continued Gun 9 surrender at Appomattox Court House, they g 40 Barracks blockade runners. After two attempts, Stoneman’s Raid t Bogue Sound o 221 n River Raid) 176 85 Driving Route Factory Block House Carolina City State Historic Site & 25 Green River to Tennessee or joined the pursuit of came to terms on April 26 at Bennett Place Union forces captured Fort Fisher on 64 General George Stoneman Laurel Hill Church W Plantation CHARLOTTE 95 e l Information or Welcome Center Information or Confederate President into near Durham after much negotiation. John- d 17 Beaufort January 15, 1865, then secured rail centers o Laurel Laurinburg n Welcome Center Georgia. Stoneman’s Raid had ended. ston surrendered almost 90,000 Confederate R such as Goldsboro. Lee’s supply line was R Hoop Pole Fort Macon Hill ) SOUTH CAROLINA 485 To Huggins Island Battery 77 74 Stewart-Hawley- General Joseph E. Johnston troops in the Carolinas, Georgia, and . Creek State Park cut, and the war ended three months later. 401 Malloy House Wilmington at Hammocks Beach SP

January 11–March 14 Burnside Expedition, N.C. September 4–19 Antietam Campaign, Va., Md., W.Va. April 17–20 Battle of Plymouth, N.C. January 15 Surrender of Fort Fisher, N.C. April 12 Shots fired at Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C. February 8 Battle of Roanoke Island, N.C. September 14 Battle of South , Md. May 4–June 20 , Va. February 1–April 26 Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign, S.C. and N.C. April 15 President calls for volunteers to suppress “insurrection” March 14 Battle of New Bern, N.C. September 17 , Md. May 5–6 , Va. March 19–21 Battle of Bentonville, N.C. April 17 Virginia secedes March 9 Battle of (Monitor vs. Virginia), Va. December 13 , Va. May 1–3 Battle of Chancellorsville, Va. May 8–19 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Va. March 24–April 26 Stoneman’s Raid, Va. and N.C. April 19 Riots March 23–June 9 Jackson’s Campaign, Va. May 10 Death of , Va. May 31–June 12 Battle of Cold Harbor, Va. September 29 Battle of Chaffin’s Farm and April 1 Battle of Five Forks, Va. May 21 North Carolina secedes April 4–June 25 , Va. December 11–18 Foster’s Raid, N.C. June 9 Battle of Brandy Station, Va. June 15 begins, Va. New Market Heights, Va. April 2–3 Fall of Petersburg and Richmond, Va., Lee’s Retreat Begins, Va. 1861 Battle of Big Bethel, Va. June 26–July 1 Seven Days’ Battles, Va. 1863 June 10–July 14 , Va., Md., Pa. June 22–30 Wilson-Kautz Raid, Va. 1865 April 9 Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House, Va. July 21 First Battle of Manassas, Va. August 28–30 Second Battle of Manassas, Va. July 1–3 , Pa. May 2–October 19 Shenandoah Valley Campaigns, Va. April 10 Last Confederate Cabinet Meeting, Danville, Va. October 21 Battle of Ball’s Bluff, Va. July 18–23 Potter’s Raid, N.C. , Va. September 19 Third Battle of Winchester, Va. April 14 John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Abraham Lincoln, flees through Southern October 14 Battle of Bristoe Station, Va. May 26–June 21 Hunter’s Raid, Va. October 19 , Va. April 26 Gen. Joseph E. 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