Battle of Wyse Fork: North Carolina Video Tour!

After capturing Wilmington, North Carolina in February of 1865, Union forces led by John Schofield moved inland to face Joseph E. Johnston and Braxton Bragg. Kris White gives a breakdown of the battle from the Wyse Fork battle monument in Kinston, NC.
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[@newgreyson]

Proud to say that I had three grandfathers participate in this battle from the 67th, 42nd, and First Junior Reserves CSA. All survived though Pvt. Benjamin McDaniel was captured and served out the war in a Union prison. My wife had a relative of the Union side. I can't be thankful enough for the people who keep this place up.

[@michaeldavid560]

Very informative ,thank you

[@glenschumannGlensWorkshop]

Thanks.

[@jonrettich4579]

D. H. Hill was one of the finest military men of the war he was cursed with an honest but very abrasive mouth with Lee banishing him to the Carolinas and referring to Hill’s take on the lost order as having him claiming it was to rebel benefit. The term then was croaker and among command it was taken seriously. He subsequently did fine work at Chicamauga and was loathed by Davis and Bragg, Davis also hating Johnson. So it is interesting Hill, Bragg and Johnson were all together in this campaign. If it exists I would like to know more of any interaction and details between them and of the battles. Nathan Bedford Forrest is quoted of Bragg, I believe “why does this man fight battles?” I can only thank you repeatedly for what you bring to my understanding

[@marcuscarrozza732]

Cox is a ancestral family member of the Buck family whom i am related to. Great history shorts of the civil war in North Carolina. Helps me piece the puzzle of my family ancestry there a little more

[@paulmorales3815]

a book has it that when Jefferson Davis put braxton Bragg in command of the fort Fisher defenses, some Confederate newspaper had the headline: "GOOD BYE WILMINGTON!"

[@paulmorales3815]

At the 5:10 mark, it sounds like he said the 415th (Connecticut) ,maybe he means poor 15th

[@kevindice1092]

Cant believe we missed this one on our return trip from Wilmington. I found an ancestor’s brother killed here , he served in an Ohio regiment.

[@turkeyman27534]

Depending on how you travel from Wilmington it is easy to miss it. Wyse Fork is on the way to.Atlantoc Beach. I own some land about 10 miles from the battlefield.

[@coltanjones5627]

SAVE WYSE FORK BATTLEFIELD

[@GrantHolmstrom]

They should try to make this a North Carolina State Historic Site

[@masonjones2894]

To the American battlefield trust please look into saving this battlefield I live in wyse fork and it is under threat from a highway there is already one there but the north Carolina D.O.T would like to put a bigger one through which would destroy the Cobb house a union headquarters during the battle countless burial mounds and fox holes please look into the preservation of it.

[@LeviBowers-yq1kz]

I’m right here at the sign as I’m watching this

[@Jonger81]

My 3rd great grandpa was fatally wounded in this battle. 🙏

[@kevinbarnes5200]

Theres quite a bit more land currently for sale just a couple hundred yards from where yall were standing. Go check that out

[@tonywade1824]

I live right down the road from that sign I find bulllets all over my yard

[@MindofJamal]

And Ft. Bragg is named after him. He was the worse General of the war