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 Fought March 19-21, 1865, was the last full-scale action of the Civil War in which a Confederate army was able to mount a tactical offensive.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

-Henry Ward Beecher

Sleep Soldier’s Sleep In Thy Rough Earthen Tomb

While Above Thee Winter Winds Rave

In Summer The Bird’s Will Thy Requiem Sing

And Willows Weep Over Thy Grave

No Coffin Enclosed His Mangled Remains

No Shroud Save His Old

But His Name Is Entwined In the Laurels Of Fame

And On Memory’s Pages Enrolled

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The monument above was erected by the Goldsboro Rifles in 1893, and marks a mass grave containing the remains of some 360 Confederates who died at Bentonville

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A Confederate mass grave, and the Harper family cemetery.

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The monument below is a memorial to the North Carolina Confederate Soilders that died at Bentonville.

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 The largest battle ever fought in North Carolina, was the only significant attempt to defeat the large Union army of Gen. William T. Sherman during its march through the Carolinas in the spring of 1865.

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Off in the distance stands a lone cannon.

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The above is a  monument to Texas soldiers who fought at Bentonville.

September 3, 2006

Love never gives up,
never loses faith,
is always hopeful
and endures

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August 23, 2006