The Battle of Bentonville (North Carolina) concludes: After four days of fighting Major General William T. Sherman, commanding the compulsory Union Department of the Mississippi, defeats the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of the South, commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 303.
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