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e Faison Mt. Olive am Trent New Bern P Rockingham R. Fayetteville R. Cape Wadesboro R. MONROE’S Warsaw CROSSROADS Neuse Hatteras Lilesville From The Way We Lived in North Carolina Rose Hill BURNSIDE’S Laurinburg Beaufort © 2003 The University of North Carolina Press Gillett’s Farm ENTRY Morehead City Map © North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources SHERMAN’S ARMY All rights reserved. Lumberton Enters North Carolina, C Burgaw ap Fort Macon Cape Lookout MAJOR CAMPAIGNS March 7-8, 1865 e F ear Burnside Expedition — January-July 1862 R. Rocky -Wilmington Campaign — December 1864-February 1865 Point Federal Amphibious Operations Campaign of the (Sherman & Johnston) — February-April 1865 RAILROAD KEY: Whiteville Stoneman’s Raid — March-April 1865 Wilmington 1. Wilmington & Weldon FORT FISHER PRINCIPAL BATTLES & ENGAGEMENTS 2. North Carolina 3. Atlantic & North Carolina — February 7-8, 1862 (Burnside Expedition) 4. Wilmington, Charlotte, & Rutherfordton New Bern — March 14, 1862 (Burnside Expedition) 5. Raleigh & Gaston Cape Fear Plymouth — April 17-20, 1864 (Recaptured by Hoke’s Confederates) 6. Western North Carolina 7. Richmond & Danville •FORT FISHER — December 24-25, 1864; January 13-15, 1865 8. Wilmington & Manchester (Largest land-sea operations of the Civil War) Wyse Fork — March 8-10, 1865 Monroe’s Crossroads — March 10, 1865 MAP BY MARK ANDERSON MOORE Principal Battles and Engagements Averasboro — March 16, 1865 •BENTONVILLE — March 19-21, 1865 Engagements of the Burnside Expedition (Largest land battle ever fought in North Carolina) GOLDSBORO TO RALEIGH — 1865 Destruction of Property during Stoneman’s Raid (Sherman & Johnston) Moccasin Creek — April 10, 1865 Towns under Federal Control in Eastern N.C. Smithfield — April 11, 1865 Principal Forts NOTABLE CLASHES: D.H. HILL IN EASTERN N.C. — 1863 Stalling’s Station — April 12, 1865 Attack on New Bern — March 13-14 Swift Creek — April 12, 1865 Stoneman’s First Raid into North Carolina Siege of Washington — March 30-April 15 Morrisville — April 13, 1865 BURNSIDE EXPEDITION — 1862 Raleigh — April 13, 1865 Stoneman’s Second Raid into North Carolina — March 23-April 26 Gillett’s Farm — April 13 PICKETT IN EASTERN N.C. — 1864 Federal Occupation of Goldsboro Attack on New Bern — February 1-3 STONEMAN’S RAID (Schofield and Terry, in conjunction with South Mills — April 19 Sherman) Tranter’s Creek — June 5 Boone — March 28, 1865 Wilkesboro — March 29, 1865 Federal Approaches for Land-Sea WILMINGTON CAMPAIGN — 1865 Shallow Ford — April 11, 1865 Operations FOSTER’S RAID (GOLDSBORO EXPEDITION) — 1862 Sugar Loaf — February 11 Mocksville — April 11, 1865 Southwest Creek — December 13-14 Fort Anderson — February 18 Bridge — April 12, 1865 Sherman’s March through Kinston — December 14 Town Creek — February 19-20 Salisbury (Grant’s Creek) — April 12, 1865 North Carolina Whitehall — December 16 Forks Road — February 20 Morganton (Catawba River) — April 17, 1865 Goldsboro Bridge — December 17 Northeast Station — February 22 Howard’s Gap — April 22, 1865