Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Bentonville” in chapter 32, page 706 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.:
...uired to send up a brigade of infantry to the aid of Kilpatrick, who was skirmishing heavily in the advance.
Next morning, when near Averysborough, on approaching the road, which runs eastward to Bentonville , the enemy, under Hardee, was found
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