Bentonville PART 3, Battle Conclusion and Preserving the Battlefield: North Carolina Video Tour!

The Bentonville trio of Garry Adelman, Colby Stevens and Derrick Brown are back to detail all of the amazing preservation efforts at the Bentonville Battlefield over the last 10 years. Then they head back into the field to bring the battle to its conclusion.
This video is part of our Petersburg and North Carolina Battlefield Tour series. Be sure to check out all of the other videos here: • Petersburg and North C...

[@TorinFinney]

My ancestor participated in Mower's assault on March 21 with Co. G of the 27th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.🇺🇸📯 Thank you for this informative video and for all your great work in preserving history.

[@jankovarik9714]

My great-great-grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Iler (EYE-ler), fought here with the 98th Ohio. He survived the war. I'll be visiting the battlefield in September (2023) and plan to stand on the ground where he stood.

[@paparude7724]

Gary's energy is much appreciated. I have the same excitement about this stuff!

[@zingwilder9989]

The N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources deserves a standing ovation for its efforts at Bentonville. Maintaining a Civil War Battlefield is a very expensive endeavor for any state. In addition, I'm sure that many watching this would be surprised to see just how rural Bentonville actually is.

[@paparude7724]

Thank u for featuring the battlefield that I grew up near. The reason for my obsession of the war between the states. I love you guys!!!!!!

[@timmylee41]

Gary you are the best, the excitement and energy you put into these videos are great!

[@SlyBlu7]

My 9th-Great Grandfather was with the Union cavalry here. Sgt. John Blaine, Company H, 9th PA volunteer cavalry. He enlisted as a private in 1861, and fought through the entire war, returning home in 1865. He lived to be an old man, and is buried an hour's drive from where I live now. The regiment would be part of Sherman's escort to Bennett Farm to accept Johnston's surrender. It was a regimental gun from the 9th which fired the war's last shot in anger, on April 13th, during a skirmish outside Morrisville.

[@earlyriser8998]

Gary your enthusiasm is contagious

[@blukeblue1235]

I appreciate the N. Carolina gentlemen's enthusiasm. Its a confusing battle but they really know their stuff.

[@zingwilder9989]

Yes, indeed.

[@paulmorales3815]

Hardee's son was mortally wounded in the charge of the 8th Texas cavalry when the Union General Oliver Howard heard about it he was saddened, Howard had tutored general Hardee's son in mathematics

[@MrStrafemoore]

I'm currently doing a window restoration on The Harper House, located at the site, which was used as a Union Hospital.

[@richardglady3009]

Thank you for the video. It must be extremely difficult to present such a complicated battle in small video segments. Thanks. The maps are very helpful. Imagine an officer ordering an attack that could/did cost the life of a son (or daughter) especially this late in the war...and realistically, for no good reason.

[@ramona14220]

I went to Bentonville in 1998 / early 2000's.They seem to have done a really good job on it in the past 20 years. Map looks like a pork chop.

[@americancivilwarukhistory9769]

Great video thanks

[@charlesgilmore5522]

I live in Dunn NC and have been to all three sites in this area. Question Garry, did you see the graves of the Soldiers that were found a few years ago behind the house.

[@F105Lt17]

Where did Gary get that Officer's hat? I can't even find one of those

[@HighVelocityRips]

Topography makes the position- duck - hook horseshoe etc.

[@maranathamindset2159]

Hello I was wondering, is what you guys do a job or volunteer type of work?

[@GregSmith-pg4zn]

👍

[@skpjoecoursegold366]

quack, quack.

[@ncgruntdiggers]

I wonder if Hardee's son is buried in Smithfield? I think there is around a dozen graves there.

[@ncgruntdiggers]

Hardee's son is buried in Hillsborough, NC.

[@williamarends7138]

This best outcome of the Battle of Bentonville is that the land that the battle was fought on has now been preserved. Unfortunately thousands of more soldiers on both sides were sacrificed on the altar of the already lost cause of the Confederacy. How much better it would have been if Jefferson Davis, Lee, and Johnston would have surrendered unconditionally in January 1865, thereby saving the lives and limbs of these final casualties of the Civil War. There was no glory in these last desperate engagements, just more reasons for the hard feelings of the veterans of these battles and for the failed reconstruction of the post Civil War era as well, attitudes and events that held back the best chances for both sectional and racial reconciliation for at least 100 years.

[@paulmorales3815]

Upside down duck? the duck could be on its back.

[@craiggleason8386]

Love Garry but you lost me at the duck

[@mrsnelky8291]

Metal detect while you can before the state buys it and lets it grow up.

[@waynemack6833]

Would you please slow down a bit!

[@petecarnes6024]

“very cool trail” is not respectful! neither is “super cool” Gary you have no filter

[@Pattytattoos]

Get a life

[@wilburnprice9886]

Couple of mighty fast talking fellas, don't sound like southerners. Difficult to understand them.