Battle of Bentonville, March 21, 2010, Civil War Reenactment: American History series

The Battle of Bentonville was fought March 19-21, 1865, in Bentonville, North Carolina, near the current town of Four Oaks, as part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the last major battle to occur between the armies of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.
On the first day of the battle, the Confederate army attacked one Federal wing and was able to rout two Union divisions, but was unable to drive the rest of the wing off the field. The next day, the other Federal wing arrived and for the next two days, the armies skirmished with each other before Johnston retreated. In light of overwhelming enemy strength and the relatively heavy casualties his army suffered in the battle, Johnston surrendered to Sherman little more than a month later at Bennett Place, near Durham Station. Coupled with Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender earlier in April, Johnston's surrender represented the effective end of the war.

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[GovVance]

It would have been a buttload more interesting to have participated in if the Federals had left their wool Kevlar uniforms at camp....

[hollywoodwerewolf]

those calvary men with the repeating rifles! It's like watching a cloned John Wayne taking on the entire Confederate Army...

[XxTHEJAYBIRDxX]

NORTH

[karenchakey]

Very moving, good job to all

[seth15100]

@FunnyGage it was yankee cavelry using henry rifles.

[Ksgamer103]

I might hafe to move the Pennselvania to reinact at gettysburg when im old enough...

[srvztube]

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[dlbartonsr]

I enjoyed this video a lot as my great-great-grandfather was a private in Co. D 27th Georgia Infantry Battalion at this battle. I want to get up there to see it sometime but the real military is keeping me deployed a lot. If I may ask a question, though, why are the CSA units using ANV battleflags when the CSA units who fought this battle were AOT troops?

[GovVance]

@dougc2004 In the end, I don't think either side takes hits really well. We wait until we're like 15 meters away from each other before we start to take casualties that would have been seen at 50 meters. Its a spectator sport, really.

[dougc2004]

@GovVance we're not the only ones who wear the wool kevlar, its been my experience that rebs dont take hits either

[Toccoa101506]

@FunnyGage Those repeaters are Henry Rifles. The are extremely loud. About 10 of them were firing right beside of me on the first days battle. That was the first time I've seen them at any reenactment.