Stoneman Enters Virginia,
April 3, 1865
Mt. Airy
DEEP GAP
Boone
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R.
Germanton
Jonesville
Wilkesboro
Mocksville
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Thomasville
Catawba
Rutherfordton
R.
R.
HOWARD’S GAP
Salisbury
BURNSIDE EXPEDITION — 1862
Siege of Fort Macon — March 23-April 26
Gillett’s Farm — April 13
South Mills — April 19
Tranter’s Creek — June 5
FOSTER’S RAID (GOLDSBORO EXPEDITION) — 1862
Southwest Creek — December 13-14
Kinston — December 14
Whitehall — December 16
Goldsboro Bridge — December 17
MONROE’S
CROSSROADS
Mt. Olive
1. Wilmington & Weldon
2. North Carolina
3. Atlantic & North Carolina
4. Wilmington, Charlotte, & Rutherfordton
5. Raleigh & Gaston
6. Western North Carolina
7. Richmond & Danville
8. Wilmington & Manchester
WILMINGTON CAMPAIGN — 1865
Sugar Loaf — February 11
Fort Anderson — February 18
Town Creek — February 19-20
Forks Road — February 20
Northeast Station — February 22
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New Bern
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Ne
Rose Hill
Gillett’s Farm
Morehead City
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Pam
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Cape
Hatteras
BURNSIDE’S
ENTRY
Beaufort
Lumberton
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Fea
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Wilmington
MAP BY MARK ANDERSON MOORE
PICKETT IN EASTERN N.C. — 1864
Attack on New Bern — February 1-3
Tre
nt R.
Burgaw
Fort Macon
GOLDSBORO TO RALEIGH — 1865
(Sherman & Johnston)
Moccasin Creek — April 10, 1865
Smithfield — April 11, 1865
Stalling’s Station — April 12, 1865
Swift Creek — April 12, 1865
Morrisville — April 13, 1865
Raleigh — April 13, 1865
STONEMAN’S RAID
Boone — March 28, 1865
Wilkesboro — March 29, 1865
Shallow Ford — April 11, 1865
Mocksville — April 11, 1865
Yadkin River Bridge — April 12, 1865
Salisbury (Grant’s Creek) — April 12, 1865
Morganton (Catawba River) — April 17, 1865
Howard’s Gap — April 22, 1865
Cape Lookout
Rocky
Point
Federal Amphibious Operations
Whiteville
RAILROAD KEY:
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Warsaw
Laurinburg
D.H. HILL IN EASTERN N.C. — 1863
Attack on New Bern — March 13-14
Siege of Washington — March 30-April 15
Pamli
eus
Faison
Roanoke I.
Washington
Kinston N
Fayetteville
Albemarle Sound
Plymouth
Goldsboro WYSE FORK
Lilesville
SHERMAN’S ARMY
Enters North Carolina,
March 7-8, 1865
.
Tranter’s Creek
Wilson
Mitchener’s Sta.
Ca
NOTABLE CLASHES:
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Edenton
RALEIGH
BENTONVILLE
R.
PRINCIPAL BATTLES & ENGAGEMENTS
Roanoke Island — February 7-8, 1862 (Burnside Expedition)
New Bern — March 14, 1862 (Burnside Expedition)
Plymouth — April 17-20, 1864 (Recaptured by Hoke’s Confederates)
• FORT FISHER — December 24-25, 1864; January 13-15, 1865
(Largest land-sea operations of the Civil War)
Wyse Fork — March 8-10, 1865
Monroe’s Crossroads — March 10, 1865
Averasboro — March 16, 1865
• BENTONVILLE — March 19-21, 1865
(Largest land battle ever fought in North Carolina)
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AVERASBORO
Rockingham
Wadesboro
MAJOR CAMPAIGNS
Burnside Expedition — January-July 1862
Fort Fisher-Wilmington Campaign — December 1864-February 1865
Campaign of the Carolinas (Sherman & Johnston) — February-April 1865
Stoneman’s Raid — March-April 1865
Morrisville
Concord
Charlotte
From The Way We Lived in North Carolina
© 2003 The University of North Carolina Press
Map © North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
All rights reserved.
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Smithfield
Pee Dee
Hendersonville
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Elizabeth City
Winton
Rocky Mount
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Lexington
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Lincolnton
Asheville Occupied
April 26, 1865
Hillsborough
South Mills
Garysburg
Halifax
Henderson
High Point
Morganton
SWANNANOA
GAP
Weldon
Durham
Station
Gibsonville
SHALLOW Jamestown
FORD
Statesville
Marion
Johnston Surrenders to
Sherman at Bennett Place,
April 26, 1865
Greensboro
Salem
Gaston
Townsville
R.
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Taylorsville
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Patterson
Lenoir
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Asheville
Elkin
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Blowing Rock
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Danbury
Dobson
Chowan R
Principal Campaigns and Battles,
1861-1865
Stoneman Returns to North Carolina,
April 9, 1865
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The Civil War
Stoneman’s Cavalry
Enters North Carolina
from Tennessee,
March 28, 1865
FORT FISHER
Cape Fear
Principal Battles and Engagements
Engagements of the Burnside Expedition
Destruction of Property during Stoneman’s Raid
Towns under Federal Control in Eastern N.C.
Principal Forts
Stoneman’s First Raid into North Carolina
Stoneman’s Second Raid into North Carolina
Federal Occupation of Goldsboro
(Schofield and Terry, in conjunction with
Sherman)
Federal Approaches for Land-Sea
Operations
Sherman’s March through
North Carolina