Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, March 1865 (Daniel T. Davis, Phillip S. Greenwalt - CWC) Section- Ralph peters S/L #17995

S/L #17995

Secession and the Onset of the Civil War

S/L# 10427

By: Ted Widmer

Wheels turn

Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, March 1865 (Daniel T. Davis, Phillip S. Greenwalt - CWC) Section- Ralph peters S/L #17995Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, March 1865 by Daniel T. Davis & Phillip S. Greenwalt Robert E. Lee gave Joseph E. Johnston an impossible task. Federal armies under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had rampaged through Georgia on their March to the Sea and now were cutting a swath of destruction as they marched north from Savannah through the Carolinas. Locked in a desperate defense of Richmond and Petersburg, there