| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place. By Mark L. Bradley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xxii, 404 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2565-4.)

Mark L. Bradley here presents the story of the final two months of the Civil War in North Carolina. After introducing the situation at the beginning of 1865 and discussing the background of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's campaign northward from Savannah, Georgia, toward Goldsboro, North Carolina, Bradley begins detailed coverage with Sherman's entry into the Tar Heel State in early March. Sherman's force consisted of four army corps organized into two field armies and totaled perhaps 60,000 men. It entered the state from the south bound for Goldsboro, southeast of Raleigh, where Sherman planned to make contact with additional Union forces and supplies moving inland from Wilmington, North Carolina. Maj. Gen. John Schofield commanded this second Union force, consisting of two army corps and totaling about 30,000 men. 1

Attempting to oppose Sherman and Schofield was a small and ragtag Confederate force under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. With barely 20,000 men, Johnston's only hope was to strike an isolated portion of the Union force, and this he attempted to do on March 19 at Bentonville, North Carolina. Sherman, however, brought up troops from his other field army, who helped drive off the Confederates. . . .

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